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

With that great smear of color, Manet becomes, in the opinion of many art historians, the true father of modern art. Manet died an agonizing, painful death in 1883, at the age of 51, of syphilis.

Scott Allan, Emily Beeny and Gloria Groom, eds, Manet and Modern Beauty: the Artist’s Last Years, J. Paul Getty Museum, 400pp, £50, $65 (hb) • Michèle Hannoosh is the Professor of French at ...

Edouard Manet’s late career works were dismissed for decades as mere confections, often dashed-off paintings of fruit and flowers and, especially, fashionable Parisian women, mere “femi… ...

Manet’s very modern family, he may have known, required just as modern advocacy that, in his absence, it would not receive. MANET: A MODEL FAMILY Through Jan. 20.

Édouard Manet. Boating, 1874–75. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Share ...

“Manet/Degas,” an exhibition opening March 28 at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, aims to trace the evolution of French painting through the lens of these friends and rivals.

Edouard Manet’s imposing 1882 painting of a winsome, weary barmaid at the Folies-Bergère has cast a long shadow across the final years of the artist’s life. Manet died the next year, at age ...

“Olympia” — the Mona Lisa of modern art — has come to America for the first time. Édouard Manet began painting his masterpiece in 1863, just after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

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, brush ...

The paradoxes of the life and art of Edouard Manet (1832-83) are many. Contemporary critics placed him at the end of a tradition, as a painter lacking inventiveness, too dependent on quoting or ...