Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...

Like many a tradition-breaking artist, Edouard Manet - "the first of the moderns" - was misunderstood, even vilified, in his own time. His bold manner with paint was bad enough (Slapdash! Unfinished!) ...

Like many a tradition-breaking artist, Edouard Manet — "the first of the moderns" — was misunderstood, even vilified, in his own time. His bold manner with paint was bad enough (Slapdash! Unfinished!) ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers. Guards ...

Famed artists Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas were born just two years apart in the 1830s, hailed from similar French upbringings and ran in the same circles. At times, they were friends but at other ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum paid more than $65 million for an Édouard Manet painting at auction Wednesday evening in New York, shattering the record price for the French artist’s work and acquiring what ...

Eva Gonzalès was not only lucky enough to be born in Paris in the 1840s, at a time when the city’s art world was experiencing a profound artistic revolution, but to be born to parents who allowed her ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Bold claims have been made on behalf of 19th century French painter Edouard Manet – that he invented modern art, or was the man who bridged realism and impressionism. A major ...

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It’s been 150 years since Monet and the Impressionists shocked Paris with their rebellious Société Anonyme show. How well do you know those once-revolutionary smudges? By Josephine Sedgwick Exactly ...