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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 succumbing to the ordeal of late-stage syphilis when he painted some of the freshest, most affecting flower paintings in the history of art. Against dark backgrounds, brush strokes ...

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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 ...

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, ...