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Born in 1832 in Paris, Edouard Manet lived, worked and played with the Impressionists but never completely accepted their theories of painting. He died at the age of 51 of paresis and blood poisoning...
...little way down 57th Street, the recently established Bignou Galleries also had on view a Monet, several Cézannes and, as No. 1 headliner, a picture listed as among the seven greatest canvases by Edouard Manet, Le Linge ("Rinsing the Wash"). Just imported to the U. S., it was for sale for more than...
Typesetters are not the only persons confused by Monet and Manet. At the Salon of 1865, before they ever met, elegant Edouard Manet squinted at a couple of seascapes signed with the name Monet and cried: "Who is this Monet who looks as if he had taken my name and happens thus to profit by the noise I make...
...elderly architects who still believed in tradition went to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week to listen to the first U. S. lecture of a lean, excitable Swiss in gaudy tweeds and enormously thick horn-rimmed spectacles. The lecturer's name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron saint of a whole school...
...Charles-Edouard Jeanneret likes to say that his thick glasses were already on his nose when he was born. That event occurred near Geneva in 1888 where his father, from whom he inherits his passion for machinery, was a prosperous watchmaker. He traveled widely, studying architecture in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Rome, finally set up shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints...