Eva Gonzalès and the World and Studio of the Female artist
Disappointing online lecture from the National Gallery looking at female artists in the gallery’s collection. I say disappointing as from the title, I had assumed the talk would focus on female studio practice and in particular, that of Eva Gonzales. However the talk became a mix of a standard talk on female artists in the collection and ones I had done a couple of year’s ago on the Eva Gonzales portrait in a studio by Manet when there was a focus exhibition on the painting at the gallery. Jacqui Ansell, from Christies Education, as ever delivered the talk well with good images and intelligent coverage of the subject, but I felt the talk’s title had promised more focus than this. It was a good International Women’s Day talk but, as a paid talk, was not novel enough. Maybe I have just done too many National Gallery talks now!