Manet: Portraying Life

Edouard Manet

ISBN 10: 1905711751 / ISBN 13: 9781905711758

Published by London. Royal Academy of Arts, 2013

About this Item

London. Royal Academy of Arts. 2013. Soft Cover with illustrated wraps and French flaps. A beautiful book illustrated in colour throughout and in fine condition. "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Manet: portraying life', Toledo Museum of Art, 4 October 2012-1 January 2013; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 January-14 April 2013". The chapters cover: themes & variations; Theophile Gautier, militant of modernity; Manet at the intersection of portraits & personalities; Manet's late portraits of women 1878-1883; Manet & Renoir, an unexamined dialogue; Manet & Hals, two geniuses, one vision. The exhibition covers: the artist & his family; artists; men of letters & figures of the stage; the status portrait; models.

Seller Inventory # DEC4.21008

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manet: Portraying Life
• Publisher: London. Royal Academy of Arts
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905711751
• ISBN 13: 9781905711758
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • arts, artists, exhibition, France

About this title

Synopsis

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Manet: portraying life', Toledo Museum of Art, 4 October 2012-1 January 2013; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 26 January-14 April 2013"--Title page verso.

About the Author

MaryAnne Stevens is director of academic affairs at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Colin B. Bailey is chief curator of the Frick Collection, New York. Stephane Guegan is a curator at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris. Leah Lehmbeck is associate curator at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena. Lawrence W. Nichols is curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 at the Toledo Museum of Art.