Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her)
@francescaberry
Art Historian| Professor of French Art History| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
Imogen Cunningham (American, 1883-1976) M, Two Callas, 1925-1929, Gelatin silver print, 11 13/16 × 8 7/8 in. The Art Institute of Chicago. #Valentine
A highlight of the ‘Radical Harmony: Hélène Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists’ exhibition (National Gallery, London), and which, by chance, I will be teaching tomorrow morning on my Inside Out: Interior and Interiority module: Paul Signac’s The Dining Room, Opus 152 (1886-7).
Excited that my first speaking event of 2026 is a virtual book salon co-hosted by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York. Please join me and other panellists for conversation about the books on 19th century art we published in 2025. 😊
Today, I finished reading the first of many books I hope to read in 2026: Isabella Hammad’s really excellent Hamlet in Palestine novel, Enter Ghost (2024).
A stunning final 2025 sunset over Birmingham, UK, this evening. #NYE2026
Henri Matisse, Nuit de Noël 1952. Stained glass window.
I am very happy to see my January 2025 book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity, has been very positively reviewed by Katrin Pirner in Sehepunkte. www.sehepunkte.de/2025/12/4035...
• 19th-20th C. French art, design & visual culture • French modernisms • The Nabis • Parisian art worlds • Visual, design & artistic cultures of domesticity • Feminist & intersectional art historical methodologies • The historical practices of women artists/art workers
‘Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts and source of their wonders.’ Francisco Goya’s caption to Plate 43, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from Los Caprichos, 1799, etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin. 🦇🦉🐈⬛
Today seems as good a day as any to covet Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830) given it commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 and its toppling of King Charles X…
more art, less war 🙏🏼 A photo from a trip in September to see the Impressions Nabies exhibition in Paris. PIERRE BONNARD, L'Enfant à la lampe. Planche destinée au troisième album d'estampes originales de la galerie Vollard (non publié), 1897. Lithographie en couleurs. BnF.
I really enjoyed the vernissage today of the new Bibliothèque nationale de France exhibition on print making by the Nabis, Vuillard (the subject of my 2025 book) included. A highlight: a rare test proof in alternative colours of his Pink Interior III, 1896-9. L: the proof; R: the published print.
Forced starvation is an act of genocide. #StopTheGenocide
Louise Bourgeois, The Insomnia Drawings, November 1994 – June 1995.
Thursday research day vibes. Suzanne Duchamp, Usine de mes pensées, 1920, gouache, ink and watercolours on paper, 45 x 54 cm. Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris.
thank you Enzo Staiola 😔 (Still from Bicycle Thieves, 1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)
I’m only still on there because Arsenal isn’t on Bsky yet. 😬 Had to unmute both to follow some of the bust up between Trump and Musk but this is just a snippet of it. 😂