Tissot, Women and Time in Toronto
January 16 2025

Picture: AGO
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The AGO in Toronto (Art Gallery of Ontario) have recently opened their latest temporary exhibition Tissot, Women and Time.
According to the gallery's website:
Exploring the many ways that the French artist James Tissot represented modern women and envisioned their relationship to time during the last decades of the nineteenth century, this exhibition presents two of the AGO’s most beloved Tissot paintings alongside a selection of more than 40 works on paper donated by Allan and Sondra Gotlieb. The contradiction of the period come alive in these works, as the quickness of modernity, exemplified by the newfound speed of travel, fashion and commodity culture, is juxtaposed against the constrained pace of women’s everyday lives, characterized by the wait to find a husband, caregiving, tending to customers or recovering from illness.
The show will run until 29th June 2025.