Two halves of a painting that Manet split in 1878 will be reunited for the first time in nearly 150 years at the National ...
When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865 ... Manet chooses to paint a woman of his time -- not a feminine ideal, but a real woman, and a courtesan at that.
X-ray and infrared imaging has revealed a long-hidden painting beneath "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," providing ...
No surprise, then, that viewers at the 1882 Paris Salon were bothered ... an alienated woman at work. In the Manet painting's case, the barmaid, based on a real person named Suzon, is so striking ...
Adapted and excerpted from “Paris ... Manet painted of Berthe Morisot in the two or three years after 1871, when political violence exploded in France and changed the country — and art ...