AGO Exhibition: Tissot, Women and Time

IMPORTANT: Please see the note about arrival and meeting point in the comments below. Exhibition tickets are usually around $30 but the annual pass is better value at $40 if you intend to visit again within the year.

About the artist:
Best known for his paintings of fashionable figures, Tissot began his career in Paris. While he turned down Edgar Degas’s invitation to exhibit with the Impressionists, he shared the group’s desire to portray scenes of modern life in an innovative style.

He moved to London in Protected content fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, and became a popular painter of Victorian scenes, particularly those showing young women in typically modern moments, before returning to France in Protected content .

This Exhibition Presents two of the AGO’s most beloved Tissot paintings alongside a selection of more than 40 works on Paper.

Curated by Mary Hunter, Associate Professor, McGill University and by Alexa Greist, AGO Curator and R. Fraser Elliott Chair, Prints & Drawings, and Caroline Shields, AGO Curator of European Art, this exhibition illustrates the many ways that time, and a gendered understanding of it, shaped women’s identities.

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Lisa and Sandy

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