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About Édouard Manet
Although ridiculed in his day for inadequate linear perspective, lack of spirituality, and controversial subject matter, Édouard Manet is considered by many art historians to be the father of Modernism. Technically his paintings are remarkable for their loose brushstrokes, nuanced color, unusual cropping, and sense of light. His most famous and oft-satirized painting, Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1861) was rejected from the 1861 Salon for its shocking content: a nude woman enjoying a picnic with two fully clothed men, while a second nearly-nude woman bathes in a stream. In 1865, depressed by Paris’s response to his art, Manet traveled to Spain and studied the art of Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Goya. Ironically, within a year of his premature death, the École des Beaux-Arts, the officially sanctioned art school in Paris, held a huge exhibition of his paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints.
French, 1832-1883, Paris, France, based in Paris, France
Group Shows on Artsy
2017
Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, Legion of Honor, San Francisco
2017
Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2016
Soulèvements (Uprisings), Jeu de Paume, Paris
2016
d'Orsay & d'Orsay, Galerie d'Orsay, Boston
2016
DEMIMONDE: The Floating World & Toulouse-Lautrec, Ronin Gallery, New York
2016
Chefs-d’oeuvre de Budapest, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
2016
Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, The National Gallery, London, London
2015
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2015
Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
2015
Inventing Impressionism, The National Gallery, London, London
2014
Manet's Goya. Prints, Statens Museum for Kunst
2012
The Circle of Toulouse-Lautrec, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland
