TOLEDO, Ohio — Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French Impressionist ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...

Édouard Manet was infatuated with all things Spanish — and especially Spain’s greatest painter Art is inseparable from society, but the two things don’t seem to progress in lockstep. The relationship ...

Édouard Manet became notorious in the 1860s when his paintings were submitted to Paris’s annual Salon, an officially sanctioned, popular, juried exhibition designed to showcase the latest, most ...

LONDON (AP) — One of the defining images of French impressionism is up for sale, as Sotheby’s auctions Edouard Manet’s “Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere.” The auction house said Monday that the painting will ...

Sky and sea, smoke and steam were a combination of elements irresistible to Impressionist painters. And one June day 139 years ago, those elements merged off the coast of France in one of the most ...

He's one of those painters considered so influential, people don't even bother with his first name. Looking at his work now, it's hard to imagine that Edouard Manet was ever regarded as revolutionary, ...

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A stunning portrait of a Parisian actress by Edouard Manet sold for $65 million at auction in New York on Wednesday, a record for a work by the French impressionist artist. The painting entitled ...