The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, demonstrates the truth of Manet's words -- at least as far as his own painting goes. The exhibition of 58 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This angered Degas so much that he took the painting back and returned a small still-life painting Manet had once given him. Decades later, the still unmarried Degas still kept the painting ...

Unlike his paintings of military scenes or upper-class life of ... while still treating them as independent pictures, Riopelle tells the London Times. “We have to honor [Manet’s] aesthetic ...

Clara Peeters, in her distinctive, witty “Still Life with a Sparrow Hawk, Fowl, Porcelain and Shells”, perches the predator, alert and vivid, on the slaughtered fowl. Manet called still life ...

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 ...

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 ...