BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly ...

Instead, Manet's pictures of the everyday were usually sold or given away for the private enjoyment of his strongest supporters, most dedicated collectors and dearest friends.

Manet now flirted with them without ever embracing their principles or joining their breakaway group. By 1876, when this show begins, ... yet his pictures were still being rejected by the Salon.

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 ...

But Manet became dissatisfied with the composition of the large work and opted to cut the canvas in two. Over the next few years, he refined each half into more concise, if slightly less ambitious ...

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 ...

Ahead of the Royal Academy’s upcoming blockbuster exhibition on Edouard Manet, Serena Davies investigates the mystery at the heart of the artist's pictures The Luncheon by Edouard Manet, 1868 ...

Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces, using your phone, tablet or computer. This episode - A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet. Show more Cathy ...

An exhibition of Edouard Manet’s portraiture sounds straightforward enough – until you realise that nearly all his pictures are portraits, at least to the extent that virtually all the figures ...