Today, Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) is regarded as 19th-century French artist Édouard Manet’s greatest triumph. But when its unusual take on classical nudes was first displayed, it ...
«Manet, Une révolution symbolique» vient de paraître. Plus de 750 pages, nées de cours au Collège de France et d’un manuscrit inachevé auquel le sociologue travaillait depuis les années 1980 En 1863, ...
London version of Manet’s Le déjeuner sur l’herbe predates the bigger picture in Paris Research supports theory that Courtauld’s painting is preparatory sketch for version in the Musée d'Orsay Martin ...
MULTIMÉDIA - Le musée d'Orsay à Paris consacre jusqu'au 3 juillet une exposition intitulée «Manet, inventeur du moderne». Lefigaro.fr décrypte cette oeuvre qui réunit toutes les aspirations ...
In 1863 the poet Charles Baudelaire wrote an essay entitled "The Painter of Modern Life", calling for someone who could capture on canvas the transience and social uncertainty perceived to ...
Their creative exchange is on full display in four half-portraits (two by each artist) near the end of the exhibition, which ...
Thick, yellowed and degraded Manet gave the Courtauld painting, which measures 90cm by 117cm, to his friend Hippolyte Lejosne, whose family sold it in 1924. Four years later the British collector ...