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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.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. Édouard Manet. 'Boating,' 1874–75. The other is an icon of a different sort ...

TOLEDO, OhioTOLEDO, Ohio — Long before smartphones turned so many of us into amateur photographers and revolutionized how we depict each other through social media, there were the works of French ...

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. Against dark backgrounds, ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Degas, aged 27, was diligently etching a copy of Velázquez’s “Infanta Margarita” at the Louvre in 1861 when a ...

Money can’t buy success, but for an artist it can buy the next best thing – time. And money is what a surprising number of impressionist and post-impressionist painters had a lot of. Manet, Morisot, ...