He's one of those painters considered so influential, people don't even bother with his first name. Looking at his work now, it's hard to imagine that Edouard Manet was ever regarded as revolutionary, ...

The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past century. But no major exhibition has explicitly explored the creative ...

One of the most splendid exhibitions in recent years, both for the works and their presentation, is ”Manet as Printmaker,” a show wholly drawn from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. The ...

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 ...

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 strokes ...

Berthe Morisot was at times a leading light to the more established Édouard Manet, who seemingly even filled the gaps in one ...

Édouard Manet became notorious in the 1860s when his paintings were submitted to Paris’s annual Salon, an officially sanctioned, popular, juried exhibition designed to showcase the latest, most ...

Sky and sea, smoke and steam were a combination of elements irresistible to Impressionist painters. And one June day 139 years ago, those elements merged off the coast of France in one of the most ...

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor stages a superb exhibition that reveals the ways in which the two French painters influenced each other over decades in the late 19th century.

The 19th-century painter Edouard Manet, who forged a crucial path from Realism to Impressionism, had a habit of getting under the skin of contemporary art critics in France. They complained about his ...