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Manet’s, L’Automne ou Portrait de Méry Laurent (1882), in which the subject is subsumed in a background full of colour and texture
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Manet and Modern Beauty is the catalogue of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Getty Museum that closed earlier this year. As the opening essay explains, the catalogue concentrates on Manet’s production in the last years of his life, during which the painter turned to “prettier”, more “frivolous” and “gallant” subjects and styles, featuring gardens, still-lifes, fashionable femininity and an emphasis on the decorative. The organisers argue that this “feminisation” of Manet’s practice, under-explored, if not ignored, in the scholarly literature and the narrative of modern art, constitutes a new vision of modern beauty that contrasts with the painter’s ailing health and physical suffering. As one of the essays puts it, Mane ....

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