Yahoo

Manet was the father of modern art. Did he father his beloved model?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions ...
The Boston Globe

Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything

NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid and jittery cat, ...
The Washington Post

Manet captured the spectacle of the moment in his 19th-century image of a deceased toreador

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

A Manet Painting Was Divided for Years—Until Degas Brought It Back Together

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 ...
Artnet

Art We Love: The Everlasting Enigma of Manet’s Balcony Scene

For an episode of the Art Angle podcast, we asked Artnet News writers and editors to tell us about one work of art that brings them joy. The following is a part of a series of transcripts of the ...
The Washington Post

Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art

CHICAGO — 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, ...
Observer

Édouard Manet

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Forbes

Major Museum Exhibition Highlights How Manet’s Influential Late Works Led A Transition From Realism To Impressionism

"Jeanne (Spring)" (1881) Édouard Manet Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 in. x 20 ¼ in. Fine, dainty brushstrokes adorn the floral dress worn by Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy. The smooth skin of her pale face ...
The New Criterion

Manet ’round the family

The Hostetter Gallery, the space for contemporary exhibitions in the Renzo Piano–designed expansion of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, now has an eight-year track record of programming. The ...
The New York Times

Edouard Manet

Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.” By Julia Halperin A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark ...
Chicago Sun-Times

The ‘Beauty’ of Edouard Manet’s later work showcased in new Art Institute exhibit

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Los Angeles Times

Getty breaks record with $65.1-million purchase of Manet’s ‘Spring’

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 ...