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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...
Painter Monet heard the remark and thereafter scrupulously signed his canvases Claude Monet. Later Monet and Manet became fast French friends. Though their names, their style, their faces and their beards were very much alike, Frenchmen of the 19th Century had no great difficulty differentiating between them...
Monet had but two interests, painting and gardening. Paris appalled him. He is never known to have made a quotable remark. Manet and his friends Degas and Clemenceau could and did trade epigrams with the sharpest tongues of the Second Empire. He was Parisian to the core, a dandy in his dress...