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, ...

Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Manet and Modern Beauty is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty Museum that closed earlier this year. As the opening essay explains, the catalogue concentrates ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

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

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