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This 1866-1867 painting of the illustrious matador Cayetano Sanz y Pozas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is, for me, a high-water mark — a perfect expression of Manet’s puppyish infatuation ...
BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions and headbutted reactionary political orthodoxies, is rightly ...
Manet’s ‘Olympia’ is coming to the Met as part of its ‘Manet/Degas’ exhibition “Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet ...
Yet the painting’s trans-Atlantic voyage is so much more than a one-off masterpiece loan. “Olympia” is central to the account of “Manet/Degas,” which maps how two very different artists ...
The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 led Eva Gonzalès to live in Dieppe, where she painted portraits and landscapes inspired by Édouard Manet’s style. She really took a shine to painting and never ...
Famed artists Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas were born just two years apart in the 1830s, hailed from similar French upbringings and ran in the same circles. At times, they were friends but at ...
Édouard Manet's Olympia will soon make its United States debut in a new exhibition. Musée d’Orsay. When Édouard Manet’s Olympia debuted in 1865, viewers at the Paris Salon were aghast ...