A Way of Seeing: The Lives of the Women Impressionists

A masterful narrative that reveals the never-before-told story of the women Impressionists, who were vanguards of the revolutionary artistic movement.

On 15 April 1874, a sensational exhibition sparked outrage in Paris. Thirty artists branded the Indépendantes had allied against the Paris Salon, the capital’s official art show. With their loosely painted ‘impressions’ of modern life, their canvases flouted the conservative standards enforced by the Académie. To crown it all, among the rebels...