When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

A gallery show in Mayfair on the creative potential of defacing other people’s work reveals a century and a half of artists coming together – and falling apart From the story of Degas‘s portrait of ...

Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter best known for his ... Impressionists and Édouard Manet in particular, Fantin-Latour remained a traditional academic painter throughout his career. Born on ...

Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter best known as a leader of the Impressionist ... Liebermann’s work is very close in style to Édouard Manet in its thick impasto and tonal palette, deftly ...