Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years curated for the home Andrew Dalby is a classics

Andrew Dalby is a classics scholar

"A handy source of quick

Beginning with an illuminating discussion of the history

and good photographic prints

9 x 11 inches

Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist's Last Years curated for the home Andrew Dalby is a classicsEdited by Scott Allan, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Groom The name Manet evokes the provocative, heroically scaled pictures he painted in the 1860s for the Salon, but in the late 1870s and early 1880s the artist produced quite a different body of work: stylish portraits of actresses and demimondaines, luscious still lifes, delicate pastels, intimate watercolors, and impressionistic scenes of suburban gardens and Parisian cafs. Often dismissed as too