News Release
ATZ200612E_E

June 12, 2020
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
Special Section Women Impressionists
23 June (Tuesday) – 25 October (Sunday), 2020
The Ishibashi Foundation Artizon Museum (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi) is delighted to announce its
upcoming special section, “Women Impressionists” in the Collection Exhibition.
At the Artizon Museum, the fourth-floor gallery presents Selections from the Collection, in which selected
works from the more than 2,800 works in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection are displayed. The Special
Section area there will present a special exhibition, each planned with a different theme, that will shed
new light on works in the collection.
In 2020, those special section exhibits will be held over two periods. The first, to be held from Tuesday,June 23, to Sunday, October 25, will simultaneously present “Women Impressionists” and “NewAcquisitions: The Paul Klee Collection.”
The Artizon Museum has made the Impressionists one core of its collection since our predecessor, theBridgestone Museum of Art, opened its doors in 1952. As part of the preparations for our reopening, it wasdecided to enrich our Impressionist collection, and we were then able to acquire five works by four major
women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Marie Bracquemond, and Eva Gonzalèz. These works
will be shown together with eight related works already in our collection and six images from a newly
acquired collection of vintage portrait photographs of Western 19th century artists.

Mary CASSATT, The Sun Bath (After the Bath), 1901

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Highlights①

Mary CASSATT, The Sun Bath (After the Bath), 1901
Cassatt, an American, met Pissarro in 1872; that led to her
showing in the Fourth Impressionist Exhibition in 1879. The
mother and child is a subject she depicted throughout her
career. Several are paintings of a mother and child after thebath. Here they are snuggling on the grass by a riverside. Inthe foreground are the mother, elegantly lying on her side,and the nude child. Behind them, lavender flowers are inbloom. In the background, trees’ green leaves are reflectedin the water. The bright colors and spirited brushwork are
Impressionist elements. The composition, with the humanfigures positioned on the diagonal, and the decorative
clothing are signs of the influence of ukiyo-e on work of thisperiod.
②Berthe MORISOT, Woman and Child on the Balcony, 1872
Morisot is one of the few women painters among theImpressionists. Her paintings of mothers and children
display a sense of delicacy and restraint. Woman andChild on the Balcony is one of the most highly regarded
works of her career.
The setting is Morisot’s home on Rue Benjamin Franklin
near the Palais de Chaillot, in one of the western districtsof Paris. A well-dressed woman and child are surveying
Paris from a balcony. The Jardins du Trocádero, the RiverSeine, and the Parc du Champ-de-Mars are included inthe scene. At right, the golden dome of Les Invalides isvisible on the horizon. The brush strokes are quick andenergetic, yet, every detail has been attentively rendered.
The background is relatively sketchy, but the red flowers
in the planter at top right, the woman’s elegant dress, andthe child’s costume and blue ribbon are carefully finished.
The woman is thought to be one of Bertisot’s older
sisters, Edma or Yves. The child may be Yves’s daughter
Paule Gobillard, nicknamed Bichette.
When she produced this work, Morisot was on
exceedingly close terms with Manet. The two painters arethought to have influenced each other during this period.
In this work, we glimpse the influence of Manet in theinnovative technique used to depict a modern subject.
The scenery shows the results of the rebuilding of Paris
under the leadership of Georges-Eugène Haussman,
Prefect of the Seine during the Second French Empire.
Similarly to Manet and Gustave Caillebotte, Morisot used
Impressionist techniques to capture the new urban
landscape of Paris.
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Eva GONZALÈS, Sleep, c. 1877-78
Gonzalès, a French painter, had a privileged background.
Her father, a writer, was the descendant of a famous
Monaco family raised to the peerage by Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V. Her mother, a Belgian, was a musician.
In 1869, Gonzalès was introduced to Manet by Alfred
Stevens. She began as his model and then became hisstudent. Prioritizing showing at the Salon, she declined toshow work at the First Impressionist Exhibition and, like her
mentor Manet, did not show at the subsequent
Impressionist exhibitions. Since her style, however, issimilar to that of Manet and the Impressionists, she isregarded as one of the women Impressionists.
Her younger sister, the painter Jeanne Gonzalès, isdepicted quietly lying down, eyes closed, in bed in herbedroom, as the sun sets. In the foreground, a negligée has
been thrown over the back of a chair. Although it is a nightscene, Gonzalès uses white accents here and there. Her
rough yet vibrant use of color reminds us of Manet. A
masterpiece by Gonzalès, Morning Awakening (KunsthalleBremen) offers a direct contrast: a young woman,awakening in the morning, is depicted with a lively touch.
Since these paintings have similar compositions and use
the same size canvas, they are often regarded as a pair.

④Marie BRACQUEMOND, On the Terrace at Sèvres, 1880
Marie Bracquemond first met Impressionist paintersthrough her husband, Félix. She created this work at thesame time as another of the same title (Petit Palais,Genève) that she showed in the 1880 Impressionist
exhibition. Her models are her friend the painter Henri
Fantin-Latour and his wife Victoria Dubourg. The woman
on the right may be the artist herself, or, according to herson Pierre, her younger sister, Louise Quivoron. Her whiteclothing, glowing in the sun, is painted in blue and pale
pink, a very Impressionist technique of grasping subtle
changes in hues due to the light, which she learned fromthe work of Monet and Renoir.

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Exhibition Overview
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Curator:Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
Special Section Women Impressionists

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
4F Gallery, Artizon Museum
23 June (Tuesday) – 25 October (Sunday), 2020
10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays/suspended until further notice) * Lastadmission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed on Mondays (open 10 August, 21 September), 11 August, 23
September
Online reservation available beginning Tuesday, June 3
Online reservation: 1,100 Yen / Same-day ticket (available at ticket counter):
1,500 Yen/ Student discount: free admission for students (online reservationrequired)
Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation
tickets have not been sold out. (No reservation required for middle-school
students and younger.) *Tickets include admission to the two concurrent
exhibitions detailed below
Shimbata Hideaki (Curator, Artizon Museum)

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Concurrent Exhibitions
・Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection×Tomoko Konoike
Tomoko Konoike: FLIP (6F Gallery)
・Exhibition in Japan of the Japan Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia,
Cosmo-Eggs (5F Gallery)*Exhibitions “Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection” and Special Section “New Acquisitions:
The Paul Klee Collection” are also on view.

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Entry to the Artizon Museum uses the designated entry system by date and time.
Tickets must be purchased in advance from the museum website.
Ticket price (incl. tax)
GeneralOn-line
ticketJPY 1,100

Same dayticket

JPY 1,500

University,college, highschool students

Those presenting
disabled persons’handbook

Free entry—Advanced booking
required
Advanced booking

Children through junior highschool
Free entry—Advanced booking
not required(Prior notification required forgroups of 10 or more）*On-line tickets must be purchased up to 10 minutes before the end of each time slot.
*Same day tickets on sale at museum are available only for time slots that have not reached full capacity.

Designated entry system by date and time

The designated entry system by date and time is designed so that visitors may enjoy a more comfortableviewing experience. Please purchase your tickets for an entry time slot for the day you will visit, as shown
below, and make sure you enter the museum within that time slot.
①10:00 ‒11:30 ②12:00 ‒13:30 ③14:00 ‒15:30 ④16:00 ‒17:30○You may enter at any time within the designated time slot.
○Once you enter the museum, your ticket is valid for the rest of the day; you may stay and enjoy theexhibition until the museum closes.

○At the start of each entry time slot, the museum may be crowded. You may be asked to wait before
entering the museum. We recommend arriving for entry slightly after the start of your time slot.

On-line designated entry time ticket purchase○Tickets go on sale June 3, 2020 (Wednesday)

Tickets must be purchased from the museum website (www.artizon.museum) by clicking on the Ticketing
link and selecting the date and time slot when you wish to enter.
○Tickets must be purchased up to 10 minutes before the end of each time slot.
○Major credit cards are accepted for payment.

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After you have purchased your ticket, an E-mail will be sent to your designated E-mail address.
Please access the QR code and download it onto your smartphone. You can also print out the QR code andbring the paper with the print out with you when you visit the museum.

Same day ticket sales

Tickets are available only for time slots that have not reached full capacity; they can be purchased on 1F ofthe museum.

Advanced booking• Entry is free for university and college students and high school students, but advanced booking of theentry time slot is required. Each student must present a student ID upon entrance to the museum.
• Children through junior high school age are admitted for free. No advanced booking is required.

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• Entry is free for disabled visitors (plus one accompanying assistant), but advanced booking of the entry
time slot is required. Disabled visitors must present their disabled persons handbook upon entrance to themuseum.
Group Entry to the museum
For groups of 10 or more children through junior high school age, entry requires prior notification using theE-mail address below. If no notification is received, those groups may not be admitted to the museum if thegalleries are crowded.
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Important information• Once your ticket purchase is confirmed, cancellation of the ticket is not allowed.
• Change of the time and date is available only once.
• There are no discounts for group tickets or for senior citizens.
• Entry is only allowed for the designated time slot.
• Resale of tickets for commercial purposes is not allowed.

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