BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly described ...
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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 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 ...
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 ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...
The exhibition invites viewers to look past old binaries of muse and master and toward a more reciprocal artistic exchange.
The Toledo Museum of Art’s new exhibition on the portraits of French 19th-century painter Edouard Manet is arguably the most important this fall between Chicago and the East Coast. That covers a lot ...
Edouard Manet’s late career works were dismissed for decades as mere confections, often dashed-off paintings of fruit and flowers and, especially, fashionable Parisian women, mere “feminized” shadows ...
The 19th-century painter Edouard Manet, who forged a crucial path from Realism to Impressionism, had a habit of getting under the skin of contemporary art critics in France. They complained about his ...
Sotheby's sold an Edouard Manet self-portrait for $33.1 million on Tuesday, a record for the artist but towards the lower end of pre-sale expectations of $16.3 million to $24.4 million. The painting, ...