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

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/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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, with access to an endowment of over $7 billion, can afford to outbid just about any other museum when it sets its sights on an artwork. But even ...

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 ...