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 ...

Brian Kennedy, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, poses in front of a portrait of French Impressionist Edouard Manet, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Toledo, Ohio. An exhibition of Manet's works opened ...

In the conventional art mediums where straight lines, accurate depictions, and anatomy were given all the love and appreciation, Impressionism emerged as a cry for change. The little blurry lines, the ...

"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 ...

Adapted and excerpted from “Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism.” © 2024 by Sebastian Smee. Reprinted with permission from W.W. Norton ...

This picture by Edouard Manet — one of the most arresting portraits in the Museum of Fine Arts — shows a young woman called Victorine Meurent, with a black ribbon around her neck and a dashingly ...

A celebrated portrait of a Parisian actress by Edouard Manet set a new auction record for the artist during the second day of a major fall sale of impressionist and modern art. “Spring” was sold at ...

Berthe Morisot, "Intérieur," (1872), oil on canvas (photo by Randy Dodson, courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; all other photos Bridget Quinn/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) SAN ...

A self-portrait by French painter Edouard Manet has sold for a record price of more than 22 million pounds ($33 million) at a London auction. Sotheby's says the portrait, painted between 1878 and 1879 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...