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 exhibition invites viewers to look past old binaries of muse and master and toward a more reciprocal artistic exchange.
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 ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...
Like many a tradition-breaking artist, Edouard Manet — "the first of the moderns" — was misunderstood, even vilified, in his own time. His bold manner with paint was bad enough (Slapdash! Unfinished!) ...
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, ...
"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 ...
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, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Édouard Manet. 'Boating,' 1874–75. The other is an icon of a different sort ...
A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark between two avant-garde 19th-century painters, Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot. By Karen Rosenberg The ...
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 ...
It’s been 150 years since Monet and the Impressionists shocked Paris with their rebellious Société Anonyme show. How well do you know those once-revolutionary smudges? By Josephine Sedgwick Exactly ...