If there’s anything you cannot miss doing this week it’s visiting the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The Modern Woman Drawings by Degas, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Other Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris is on its last week here. After September 6, the rarely seen drawings will return to Paris.

Presented are nearly 100 works curated by Isabelle Julia of Musée d’Orsay. The collection features one of my favorite paintings: Edgar Degas’ The Star (1876-77 c.) or so I hope.

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Reflecting the changing social roles in society, artists began to portray women with an increasing level of individuality and independence. Pictured in the café or in the street, in the boudoir and the bath, lounging or reading, and often unaccompanied by men, these depictions of often anonymous women departed radically from the traditional portrait genre and historical conventions that had relegated women in art to images of virgins, saints or idealized allegorical figures. [via Vancouver Art Gallery]

Vancouver Art Gallery

750 Hornby Street, Vancouver BC V6Z 2H7

Hours: Daily 10 am to 5 pm; Tuesdays until 9 pm

Fees: Adult $22.50, Seniors $17, Student $16