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, ...
NEW YORK — In any survey class of Western art, Édouard Manet’s 1863 painting “Olympia” invariably comes up on the screen. Professors typically discuss how the naked white prostitute displayed starkly ...
NEW YORK — Crowds nudge forward, jostling for position, smartphones raised, waiting for a group of women to finish posing in front of “Olympia.” “Olympia,” if you didn’t know, was scandalous when it ...
CHICAGO — I wonder how often he thought back on it: the outrage, the reproaches, the shame, the folly. In 1865, two years after they rejected his “Déjeuner sur l’herbe,” the gatekeepers of the Paris ...
Victorine Meurent was just 17 years old when she met the great Impressionist painter Edouard Manet on a Paris street in 1862. The young, poverty-stricken redhead became his favorite model, and Manet ...
NEW YORK — We still live in an Age of Rediscovery regarding the role of women in art, and revelations regularly reshape the way we view both female creators and subjects. A retrospective of Swedish ...
“Manet: A Model Family,” opening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Oct. 10, arrives in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the first-ever Impressionist exhibition, held in Paris in ...
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