In the early 19th Century there was little demand for them. Manet created his first still life — a plate of oysters with fork, lemon and seasonings on a wood table or sideboard — in 1862.

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) once said that "a painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds..." The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in ...

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 ...

Outraged by this unexpected act of violence, Degas took back his painting and, for good measure, returned a still life of nuts Manet had given him. (It does not take an art historian to interpret ...

A reunion is taking place in room 41 of London’s National Gallery. Among early Impressionist masterpieces like Claude Monet’s ...

He once slashed an intimate double portrait of himself and his wife, Suzanne, that Edgar Degas had gifted to the Manets in exchange for a still life. Manet and Degas were almost exact ...

In a famous 1860 essay, the French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote that a “painter of modern life” must possess an ... In their own ways, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas each embodied that ...