Berthe Morisot
1841-1895 · French · Impressionism
Auction record: $11M
Après le déjeuner, 1881 · Christie's, London · Feb 6, 2013
Source: paulfrasercollectibles.com
Biography
Berthe Morisot was a founding member of the Impressionist group and exhibited in seven of its eight exhibitions, missing only the one held after the birth of her daughter Julie. Trained in Paris and encouraged by Corot, she became close to Édouard Manet, whose brother Eugène she married. Her loose, rapid brushwork and luminous palette were applied to domestic interiors, gardens and portraits of women and children, subjects drawn from the private world she knew. For the market, Morisot has gained weight with the renewed attention to women artists and major museum retrospectives. Her auction record, Après le déjeuner, sold for about 11 million dollars in London in 2013, then a record for a woman artist.
Recent auction results
| Nurse at the Back of a GardenChristie's, Paris | $630K | Apr 17, 2026 | heni.com |
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| Julie Manet with a Parakeet (1890)Christie's, Paris | $1.25M | Oct 23, 2025 | heni.com |
| Jeanne Gobillard au piano et Julie Manet (1888)Christie's, London | $802K | Oct 17, 2025 | heni.com |
Market
- Liquidity: Medium
Museums
- Musée d'Orsay, Parigi
- Musée Marmottan Monet, Parigi
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sources
- Paul Fraser Collectibles, Après le déjeuner record
- Antiques and Art Ireland, Christie's London February 2013
- HENI News, Julie Manet with a Parakeet
- HENI News, Christie's London day sale October 2025
- HENI News, Christie's Paris April 2026
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