The works of French artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot have been exhibited in museums around the world over the past ...

Manet & Morisot,” a major exhibition of the famous impressionist pair, is a rare look at a creative relationship “like no ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Edouard Manet’s late career works were dismissed for decades as mere confections, often dashed-off paintings of fruit and flowers and, especially, fashionable Parisian women, mere “feminized” shadows ...

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 ...