Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON — Édouard Manet (1832-1883), the urbane, elusive, irony-loving Parisian who flushed away exhausted pictorial conventions ...

Édouard Manet was not immune to bad press. In 1864, a year on from scandalizing Parisian mores with his vision of bourgeoisie vice in Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (1863), his follow-up Salon entry was being ...

For a few more days, a luminous still life by the artist is on view at Sotheby's. On May 15, it will be sold. Edouard Manet's Vase de fleurs, roses et lilas (1882), which is on view now at Sotheby's ...

A record-setting auction for a Manet painting set the tone for Christie's fall auctions. WSJ's Kelly Crow offers an insider's take on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: AP It may be autumn, but ...

She was unlike any naked lady who’d ever gone before. She wasn’t Eve in the Garden or Venus on a foamy bed of waves. She wasn’t a goddess or an angel or a shy bather caught off guard. She was a ...

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 ...

Eight little things (a scene, a joke, a building, a pizza, a dance, a painting, a lyric, a sound) worth your time. By Jason Farago This shoe appears in Édouard Manet’s “Mademoiselle V … in the Costume ...

The Art Institute of Chicago explores the great paradox of the 19th century’s greatest painter: from a scandalous youth of frank nudes to flowers, fruit bowls and fashionable women. By Jason Farago ...