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 ...

After Victorine Meurent posed for Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ she took art classes and painted this fascinating self-portrait To begin with, it’s one of fewer than half a dozen paintings attributed with any ...

Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the “intimate genius” of painters Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and Edgar ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - French Impressionist painter Edouard Manet's "Le Printemps," which set a world record price for the artist when it sold at auction for $65.1 million at Christie's on Wednesday ...

Oswald Spengler. that grand and gloomy chronicler of The Decline of the West, once remarked that Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the last gasp of great Western painting. What Spengler failed to see was ...

This fall, Pissarro, Manet, Morisot, Renoir, and Rousseau have special exhibitions across America putting masterpieces drawn from around the nation and Europe and on view. ByChadd Scott, Contributor.

Édouard Manet: We thought we knew him. An upper-class bon vivant, a fervent modernist who flouted artistic traditions but remained a realist even as he blazed a path for the Impressionists (whom he ...

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 ...

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From toppled toreadors to inanimate aristocrats, with a croaked Christ or two on the way, take a tour of art's most interesting cadavers ...