A new exhibition in San Francisco reframes the complicated relationship between two renowned 19th-century French artists ...

A new exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco captures the creative spark between two avant-garde 19th-century ...

"The Luncheon on the Grass" caused a stir when it made its debut in 1863. A century and a half later, students defended the French artist against obscenity charges ...

The Legion of Honor offers a fresh look at Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot's partnership - and how they inspired each other's masterpieces.

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor stages a superb exhibition that reveals the ways in which the two French painters influenced ...

Twenty years ago, Berkeley author Jeffrey Meyers published “Impressionist Quartet,” an interlocking biography exploring the ...

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

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers. Guards ...

Like many a tradition-breaking artist, Edouard Manet — "the first of the moderns" — was misunderstood, even vilified, in his own time. His bold manner with paint was bad enough (Slapdash! Unfinished!) ...

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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 ...