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Impressionism · France

Eva Gonzalès

1849–1883 · Manet's only formal student, and his sharpest reader

ImpressionismPastelPortraitureFlat blacks

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Gonzalès absorbed Manet's flat blacks and cool greys, then applied them to pastel and to sitters caught between poses. She died at 34, days after childbirth.

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