But was it also charged by love? Varieties of competitive ardor radiate powerfully from “Manet & Morisot,” a marvelous ...

The show gives museumgoers the opportunity to understand how deeply the two French painters were in conversation with one ...

"The Luncheon on the Grass" caused a stir when it made its debut in 1863. A century and a half later, students defended the ...

A fascinating exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first of its kind, takes a close look at Édouard Manet and ...

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

Like many a tradition-breaking artist, Edouard Manet — "the first of the moderns" — was misunderstood, even vilified, in his own time. His bold manner with paint was bad enough (Slapdash! Unfinished!) ...

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Édouard Manet is best known for his realistic paintings of Parisian life, but this month the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston delves into the artist's lesser-known medium—his prints and drawings—in Manet ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers. Guards ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Édouard Manet. 'Boating,' 1874–75. The other is an icon of a different sort ...