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 ...

One of the most splendid exhibitions in recent years, both for the works and their presentation, is ”Manet as Printmaker,” a show wholly drawn from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. The ...

At a Christie's auction in New York on Wednesday, the museum spent more than $65 million for an Édouard an 1881 Manet painting titled "Spring" (Le Printemps) It might be fall by the calendar, but at ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — 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 ...

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

Los Angeles County Museum of Art is being gifted its first paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Édouard Manet, in addition to four works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Alfred Sisley, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and ...

One of the many sad consequences of the decline in historical education in this country over recent decades is a drop in proper appreciation of history painting. Once it was considered the highest of ...

Cast in the major exhibition “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” (through September 29 at the Art Institute of Chicago), certain paintings expose their undergarments, so to speak. The exhibit, ...

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 ...