‘Eva Gonzalès is What Dublin Needs’
‘Eva Gonzalès Is What Dublin Needs’ takes Édouard Manet’s portrait of Eva Gonzalès (1870) as its focus, presenting a fresh perspective on women artists and their artistic practice in 19th-century Paris and beyond. Though regarded as the father of modernism, Manet only ever had one formal pupil, Eva Gonzalès, who entered his studio in 1869. By the time of her death 14 years later, she had become an established artist…
