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VG+: This is a very clean book in excellent condition. Looks as though it was never taken off the shelf. A dark green softcover with French flapts. There is raised relief text in gray and yellow for the title. The title, author, and publisher are also printed in yellow and grey font along the spine. The back lists the three paintings in gray and yellow text. The end pages are gray with a thick yellow stripe through the center. Pages: (5), 6-95. There are thirty-one full color plates. Considered the father of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and, by some, twentieth-century abstraction, Édouard Manet (1832-1883) was a revolutionary in his own time and a legend thereafter. Beyond his pivotal role in art history as the creator of such iconic masterworks as Olympia (1862-63) and Luncheon on the Grass (1863), Manet's vision has come to define how we understand modern urban life and Paris, the so-called capital of the nineteenth-century. Next fall the Frick will present three Manet canvases from the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, marking the first time the paintings will be exhibited together elsewhere since their acquisition. The exhibition will present the paintings as examples encapsulating three views of the artist's life and work. Each canvas offers an opportunity to consider the range of Manet's pioneering vision: Still Life with Fish and Shrimp (1864) focuses attention on the paint itself; The Ragpicker (ca. 1865-71; possibly reworked in 1876) highlights the artist's use of art historical references; and, finally, Madame Manet (ca. 1876) looks at his biography. Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum is the seventh in a series of acclaimed reciprocal loans with the California museum. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue which features new scholarly material on technical analysis, provenance, and dating are organized and written by the Frick's Assistant Curator, David Pullins.
