The Boston Globe

Manet, Degas, and the nude that changed everything

NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid and jittery cat, ...
Yahoo

Manet was the father of modern art. Did he father his beloved model?

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

Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot Meet as Equals

An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic ...
The Washington Post

Manet captured the spectacle of the moment in his 19th-century image of a deceased toreador

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

A Manet Painting Was Divided for Years—Until Degas Brought It Back Together

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...
Artnet

Art We Love: The Everlasting Enigma of Manet’s Balcony Scene

For an episode of the Art Angle podcast, we asked Artnet News writers and editors to tell us about one work of art that brings them joy. The following is a part of a series of transcripts of the ...
Hyperallergic

The Dance Between Manet and Degas

Edgar Degas, "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet” (1868–69), oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 27 15/16 inches; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (photo courtesy Kitakyushu Municipal Museum) Punctuation as ...
Star Tribune

Review: 'The Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet,' by Maureen Gibbon

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!) ...
The Washington Post

Édouard Manet spent his final days in excruciating pain — and creating his most thrilling art

CHICAGO — Édouard Manet was succumbing to the ordeal of late-stage syphilis when he painted some of the freshest, most affecting flower paintings in the history of art. Against dark backgrounds, ...
Observer

One Fine Show: ‘Manet & Morisot’ at the Legion of Honor

Edouard Manet, The Balcony, 1868-1869. Oil on canvas, 66 15/16 x 49 3/16 in. (170 x 125 cm). Musée d’Orsay, bequest Gustave Caillebotte, 1894. © RMN-Grand Palais ...
Forbes

Major Museum Exhibition Highlights How Manet’s Influential Late Works Led A Transition From Realism To Impressionism

"Jeanne (Spring)" (1881) Édouard Manet Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 in. x 20 ¼ in. Fine, dainty brushstrokes adorn the floral dress worn by Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy. The smooth skin of her pale face ...
Observer

Édouard Manet

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