Le Réveil (The Awakening) 1877 Kunsthalle, Bremen Eva Gonzalès's painting of a young woman awakening evokes an intimate, sensual atmosphere- not voyeuristic. It is one of her many portraits of her younger sister Jeanne. In recent times, Eva Gonzalès has been too much in the shadow of Manet, her mentor. This exhibition puts her in the spotlight; it is the fullest show of Gonzales's works since the retrospective of 1885, two years after her death aged only 36. One of the star works in the exhibition is the scene at the theatre where a young woman is focusing on the stage in front of her, while the man's gaze is elsewhere: Une loge aux Italiens (A box at the Italiens) ca 1878 Musée d'Orsay The above picture, portraying her sister Jeanne and Eva's future husband Henri Guérard, was refused at the 1874 Salon, because it was judged to be too much by the hand of Manet. Five years later it was accepted. Sadly Eva's career as an artist was short, since she died soon...