Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images

Édouard Manet was the most controversial and most consequential painter of the nineteenth century — the man who, with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, forced the question of what modern painting was allowed to depict, and whose answer transformed the history of Western art. This life and works volume presents all five hundred major paintings alongside the biographical material that traces the development of the most important career in nineteenth-century French painting. Published by Lorenz Books.