"With her flowery spring ensemble, her pert profile, and bright, leafy backdrop, Jeanne—also known as Spring—is a popular favorite at the Getty. This year we’re celebrating Jeanne and her maker, the great painter of modern Paris Édouard Manet, with the first exhibition ever devoted to the last years of his short life. Manet and Modern Beauty, co-organized by the Getty and the Art Institute of Chicago, opens on May 26 in Chicago and comes to Los Angeles on October 8. When she made her debut at the Paris Salon in 1882, Jeanne marked a high point in Manet’s career. Best remembered for ambitious, provocative pictures painted in the early 1860s (think Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia), he had evolved in a very different direction some twenty years later. ..."
Getty: Exhibition Manet and Modern Beauty Explores the Artist’s Last Years
Getty: Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years
The House at Rueil, 1882
2011 May: Manet, the Man who Invented Modernity, 2013 April: Manet: Portraying Life
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