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Édouard Manet was a French 19th Century artist who was born in 1832. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art have featured Édouard Manet's work in the past.Édouard Manet's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 10 USD to 65,125,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 65,125,000 USD for Le Printemps, sold at Christie's New York in 2014. Édouard Manet has been featured in articles for Artland Magazine, ARTnews and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Strawberry Paintings Forever written for Daily Art Magazine in April 2024. The artist died in 1883.
It might seem like gilding the lily to devote a two-part exhibition to a single historic event, and yet the result, “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” is a revelation.
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..Further, Manet spearheaded the shift toward painting modem narratives as opposed to the more traditional genres of history or religious painting...
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..Manet painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of his day, often in casual settings rather than traditionally posed portraits...
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..Too often dismissed as superficial by critics, these later works provide valuable testimony to Manet’s elegant social circle and suggest a radical new alignment of modern art with fashionable femininity...
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