AUCTIONS: Readjusting to the real world Nov 7, 2008
Courtesy of Christie's "Fillette sur un banc," an obviously unfinished portrait by Edouard Manet, failed to sell at Christie's ... No one displayed any interest in "Fillette sur un banc," an obviously unfinished portrait of a girl by Edouard Manet. (International Herald Tribune)
Art market feels global financial pinch Nov 6, 2008
Christie's was to kick off its season's first auction last night with works by Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet, and Paul Cezanne. ASSOCIATED PRESS. (Boston Globe)
Going, going, not gone: Financial crisis crimps art Nov 6, 2008
Christie's kicked off its first auction of the season Wednesday evening with paintings, sculptures and decorative arts from two private collections of works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet and Paul Cezanne. Its combined pre-sale estimate was $130 million. (CNN -- US)
Art exhibit takes interactivity to new level Oct 15, 2008
Fifield described the exhibition artists as pioneers, much like Edouard Manet, who helped the movement of realism to impressionism in painting. Every time you make a change in the rules in how you make art, there are people who will claim this is not art, he said. (MSNBC -- News)
Art appreciation begins with an open mind Aug 24, 2008
But in the end, there's only one "Don Balthasar Carlos With a Dwarf" by Diego Velazquez (it's in the Museum of Fine Arts) and only one "Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume" by Edouard Manet (it's in the Yale University Art Gallery). If you want to see them, and get to know them, you have to go there. (Boston Globe)
Stellar results for Christie's mask deep fault lines in market Jul 25, 2008
Painted in 1995, its realism, its handling of light and its brushwork go back to a tradition embodied 130 years ago by Edouard Manet. The Freud aside, the works that allowed Christie's to post the biggest scores are unlikely to be available for much longer in "Post War & Contemporary Art." Along with this message comes the warning that truly contemporary art, i.e. by artists who are alive and kicking, does not come anywhere near the top of the artistic greasy pole. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Impressionist art by women at San Francisco museum Jun 3, 2008
Morisot was married to the brother of painter Edouard Manet and was close friends with Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Cassatt, the only American among the four, was friends with Edgar Degas and is known for her portraits of mothers and children. (Yahoo News)
Gardens of Modern French Masters Jun 2, 2008
Painters Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Gustave Caillebotte depicted many beautiful elements of nature in their works, and they were also avid gardners ... Painter Edouard Manet was friends with many of the French Impressionists, though he never formally allied himself with the group and did not exhibit with them. (Suite101.com)
The Impressionists: A Preview May 29, 2008
The Races at Longchamp (1866) by Edouard Manet (1832-1883). Stacks of Wheat (Sunset, Snow Effect) (1890-91) and Water Lily Pond (1900) by Claude Monet (1840-1926). (Suite101.com)
Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet May 27, 2008
Artist Berthe Morisot held her own among the male-dominated Impressionists, and her friendship with fellow painter Edouard Manet would influence her career and his own. Berthe Morisot first met painter Edouard Manet in 1868 when they were introduced by yet another painter and mutual acquaintance, Henri Fantin-Latour ... However, Berthe Morisot s confident use of strong color and line show how she took Edouard Manet s influence and made it her own. (Suite101.com)
Gallery Ghost by Anna Nilsen May 22, 2008
Edouard Manet (The Railway). Amedeo Modigliani (Gypsy Woman with Baby). (Suite101.com)
French Picnic Lesson May 20, 2008
In 1863, Edouard Manet created a stir with D;jeuner sur l herbe (Lunch on the Grass). This painting inspired similar works by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and Claude Monet. (Suite101.com)
Critic's Log: 20 turning points in art Dec 13, 2007
14: Edouard Manet, The Fife Player, as the birth of that Modernism, flat, ironic, oblique. 15: Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
* New insights into artists' failing vision Dec 6, 2007
"It is so painful to see him in the morning," wrote Julie Manet, a niece of Edouard Manet. "He does not have the strength to turn a doorknob.". (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Legendary Liquor Coming To Bay Area Store Shelves Dec 6, 2007
Absinthe was the drink of choice of 19th and 20th century artists and writers such as Vincent Van Gogh, Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Ernest Hemmingway and Pablo Picasso. Vincent Van Gough reportedly sliced off his ear while drinking it, and legend has it, the drink turned normal people into homicidal maniacs. (NBC 11, CA)
In Which World Gallery Nov 12, 2007
" It resides in the Frick Collection in New York. The Haywain by John Constable In this painting (1821) the mill belonged to Constable s father and the house on the left to a neighbor, Willy Lott, who supposedly never left the place for more than four days in his lifetime. Lott s cottage has survived to today virtually intact. Today it is revered as one of the greatest British paintings and hangs in the National Gallery, London. The Kleptomaniac by Theodore Gricault This (1822) is one of a... (Suite101.com)
Edward Hopper: Washington, D.C. exhibit peers into world of iconic artist Sep 19, 2007
Traveling through Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin after school, Hopper was impressed with modernists like Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. Like those painters, Hopper would come to essentially address the reality of contemporary urban life. (Carroll County Times)
Portrait by Lucian Freud earns £7.86 million at record-setting Christie's sale Jun 22, 2007
Christie's cataloguer optimistically drew a parallel with Edouard Manet, and went so far as to reproduce three of the French master's portraits. A more apt comparison might be with Socialist Realism much vaunted in the defunct Soviet Union. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story May 30, 2007
Centering the exhibit around Edouard Manet s 1867 painting Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, Picasso s Rape of the Sabine Women, and Goya s Disasters of War, she added 17 contemporary works. There really is this undercurrent of discontent going on right now, and I thought it would be great to look at it from different perspectives, said Brutvan, who has included film and video in the exhibit. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Salon des Acceptances May 11, 2007
Among those rejected artists were Edouard Manet, James Whistler, Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro. This year's Ellarslie Open received 466 entries, 64 percent more than last year's, and had to be whittled down to 112. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
The Art of Impressionism Mar 26, 2007
A history and overview of the Impressionism movement started by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro ... Joined by such noted artists as Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, they created what was dubbed by critic Louis Leroy Impressionism, inspired by the title of Monet s work. (Suite101.com)
Beauty Is Back!: Mar 15, 2007
Image of Olympia (1863) by Edouard Manet, courtesy Wikipedia. Join the Fray: our reader discussion forumWhat did you think of this article. (Slate)
Admired worldwide, obscure on campus Mar 8, 2007
Meanwhile, the Impressionism and post-Impressionism collections boast original works by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet and Henri Matisse. Monet's "Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge" depicts a bridge over a cascading stream in green, blue and pink. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
France parts with prized art for N.O. exhibit Mar 4, 2007
Called Femme, Femme, Femme, the show features portraits of women in French society, mostly in the mid- to late-1800s, painted by Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Renoir, Honore Daumier, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Also among the paintings is Leon Cogniet's mid-1800s portrait of Madame Berbe-Nicole Clicquot, whose family first made the world renowned Veuve Clicquot champagne. (KSLA.com, LA)
Paper riches are solid gold Jan 27, 2007
The list of works on paper reads like a who's who of art, with studies by Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Edouard Manet, Pierre-August Renoir, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Winslow Homer in the collection. Exhibition hours are 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday; 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
More on the exhibit Jan 22, 2007
Was Edouard Manet an Impressionist. No. And he didn't think so, either, although he diddled with painting outdoors. (The Palm Beach Post)
Bruce Museum looks at contentious relationship between Chase, Henri Jan 21, 2007
The pair admired the works of 17th-century giants Diego Velazquez and Frans Hals and 19th-century painters Edouard Manet and James McNeill Whistler, who also were inspired by the old masters. Chase and Henri each created paintings revealing the influence of Velazquez and Hals. (Stamford Advocate)
Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum Jan 18, 2007
A lithograph by Edouard Manet shows soldiers firing on Paris Communards. Picasso's famous pair of etchings "Dream and Lie of Franco, " parts I and II, makes a surrealistic mockery of the Spanish dictator. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Read More... Jan 15, 2007
The first shows a single artist, Edouard Manet, striding into a future that bumps directly against the present. The other captures a group of German artists desperately reaching into the stylistic past to picture humanity in a state of utter depravity and pain. (Disinformation)
Monet's Love Affair with Japanese Art Jan 9, 2007
Japonisme, a fascination with all things Japanese, was soon the rage among French intellectuals and artists, among them Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and the young Monet. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and remains ferociously popular there. (Time.com)
