Brian Kennedy, director of the Toledo Museum of Art, poses in front of a portrait of French Impressionist Edouard Manet, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Toledo, Ohio. An exhibition of Manet's works ...

“Manet and Modern Beauty” is meant to be a kind of sequel to “Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity,” a landmark exhibition shown at the Art Institute in 2013.

Some often-reproduced French Impressionist paintings might feel very familiar, but to see them in person is to experience them in an entirely new way, curator Katie Hanson says.

Manet was not himself an impressionist, but he mightily influenced the movement. Two of his paintings are now in LA. The Railway is making its West Coast debut, and Spring just sold for $65 million.

Manet’s Folies-Bergere painting to be sold — a defining image of impressionism This image released by Sotherby’s auction house in London shows Edouard Manet’s Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere.

LONDON (AP) - One of the defining images of French impressionism is up for sale, as Sotheby’s auctions Edouard Manet’s “Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere.” The auction house says the painting will ...

Édouard Manet’s “Self-Portrait With a Palette,” from 1878, owned by the hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen, will be a star of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art auction in London ...

The painting entitled 'Spring' was sold at Christie's in New York on Wednesday evening for $65 million, almost doubling the previous record of $33.2 million for the French impressionist.

An Edouard Manet masterpiece moves from Washington to Los Angeles as Christie’s adds a spring to its step: Last night, the auctioneer held a $165.6 million Impressionist and modern art auction.

LONDON (AP) - One of the defining images of French impressionism is up for sale, as Sotheby's auctions Edouard Manet's "Le Bar aux Folies-Bergere." The auction house says the painting will be ...

Edouard Manet's 1873 oil on canvas, The Railway, is on view at the Norton Simon Museum in Los Angeles until March 2. It is on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Image ...