Ultimately, Manet and Morisot speak out from canvases and paper in a language composed of color, line, light, and shadow. Theirs is the language of the eyes, not of the tongue.
Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the “intimate genius” of painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and Edgar ...
With portraits the artist made of the people closest to him, the exhibition tunes into the details of his private life In 1863, Édouard Manet married Suzanne Leenhoff, his well-to-do family’s piano ...