Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...

NEW YORK — The 1865 Paris Salon was the site of grand scandale. “Olympia,” Édouard Manet’s painting of a nude courtesan lolling on a divan, forthrightly blasé alongside her Black maid and jittery cat, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...

In 1863 artist Edouard Manet painted two landmark works, “Dejeuner sur l’herbe” and “Olympia,” which confounded traditional painting conventions and ushered in the movement known as Modernism. This ...

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 J. Paul Getty Museum paid more than $65 million for an Édouard Manet painting at auction Wednesday evening in New York, shattering the record price for the French artist’s work and acquiring what ...

Eva Gonzalès was not only lucky enough to be born in Paris in the 1840s, at a time when the city’s art world was experiencing a profound artistic revolution, but to be born to parents who allowed her ...