Émile Zola, “Official record of the duel between Edouard Manet and Edmond Duranty, Paris” (1870) (image courtesy Christie’s) According to Zola’s testimony, signed by the duel’s other ...

"Emile Zola" by Édouard Manet, 1868 Musée d’Orsay. Luxuriously rich and deep, the painting exudes cosmopolitanism, Paris as a cultural crossroads, the epitome of a modern metropolis.

Edouard Manet Young Man with Cherries 1858 Oysters 1862 Portrait of Emile Zola 1868 Violets and Fan 1872 Still Life with Melon 1866 Moss Roses in a Vase 1882: Manet's Still Lifes by N. F. Karlins ...

The Enduring Moral Outrage of Emile Zola. By FREDERICK BROWN . Sept. 29, 2002 12 AM PT . ... to lash out against the artistic establishment in articles championing Edouard Manet, ...

Edouard Manet. Posted in Books The ... A witness statement by novelist Émile Zola relates the sword fight between the painter and critic Edmond Duranty after he penned a lukewarm review of Manet ...

And Zola was scornful of Proudhon’s disciplinarian attack on artists who failed to rally to the socialist cause. Proudhon had concluded his book demanding the banishment of artists who would not bow ...

Zola eventually realized that Manet was not a realist after his own heart. In 1879 he wrote about the artist again, this time regretting that “he is satisfied with unfinished work; he does not ...

The exhibit is a matchless opportunity to examine, in depth, one aspect of Manet’s work: the portrait. Manet (1832-83) is often called the father of modernist painting, noted museum director ...