"Richly detailed and informative, (this biography) exposes the character of an artist who maintained a sharply defined duality between his public and private pe
The inventor of modernity Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now con
Set in the richly drawn art world of nineteenth-century Paris, this stunning historical novel imagines Édouard Manet’s last days in an indelible snapshot of
When Édouard Manet’s early paintings were greeted with outrage and derision in the 1860s, Émile Zola sprang to his defense, initiating a friendship that wou
This stunning examination of the last years of Édouard Manet's life and career is the first book to explore the transformation of his style and subject matter