The Artist: Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin, 1875 (Museu de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil) We are more familiar with Manet’s images of women, mostly without their clothes on too, but at the impressive exhibition at London’s Royal Academy…
If you have been to London this year, you are bound to have seen the distinctive poster for the Royal Academy of Arts’ giant exhibition of works by Édouard Manet (1832-1883), Manet Portraying Life which finishes this Sunday, 14th April. If…
Édouard Manet (1832-1883) Last month I was in Paris where I spent some time at the inspirational D’Orsay museum where no one works were more impressive than Manet’s and where, because this was out of the tourist season, I could…