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Manet Enters the Bar,

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First-hand expérience in the Courtauld Gallery, London


Mirrors of Édouard Manet

Un bar aux Folies Bergère


Within the context of other mirrors of Édouard Manet


Édouard Manet 1832 * 1883

Olympia (1863)

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1865)


Embedded in the art history


An accolade by public and ‘serious thinkers’ alike


Édouard Manet – Troes Prunes�

Header of the letter signed ‘Ed. Manet’ and dated 8 oct. 1880. Sold in 2013 at the Sothbey’s auction for $US 1,265,000


How dare you say that Monet is a ‘bad painter’ ?

And his mirrors are a ‘bricolage the ‘hollow surfaces’ ?


Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux

“Lamartine, before the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, rejects the Red Flag, on February 25, 1848.”


François-Auguste Biard �Paris Salon, Grande Galerie (с.1840)


Manet was born in his parents' apartment at 5 rue Bonaparte, �Paris (6th arrondissement) Portrait de M. et Mme Auguste Manet (1860)

Édouard Manet


Battle of U.S.S. “Kearsarge” and the C.S.S. “Alabama” (1864) Fishing boat coming in before the wind (1864) Édouard Manet Édouard Manet


After Delacroix’s Barque of Dante (1855) Édouard Manet


Eugène Delacroix �The Barque of Dante (1822)


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The absinthe drinker (1859)


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The old musician (1862)


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The Spanish Ballet (1862)


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The Spanish Singer (1860)


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Music in the Tuileries Garden (1862)



Olympia (1863)


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Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (1862)


Jean-Michel Basquiat��

Untitled (1981)


Jacques-Joseph Tissot �

The Picnic (1876)


Claude Monet��

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1865)



Portrait of Victorine Louise Meurent (1862)

Victorine Louise Meurent



Study for Olympia (1862)


Zaltbommel


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Woman with a pitcher and bowl (Suzanne Leenhoff ) (1855)

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Nymph(1861)



Boy with a tray (1859)


Spanish boy with a sword (1861)


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Portrait of Suzanne Leenhoff/Manet (1865)



Suzanne Manet playing piano (1868)

Suzanne Leenhoff/Manet

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Edgar Degas��

Portrait of Monsieur and Madam Manet (1869)


Frédéric Bazille��

Studio at rue Condamine (1870)


Henri Fantin-Latour

Hommage to Delacroix (1864)�


Henri Fantin-Latour

A studio at Les Batignolles (1870)


Cartoon on Manet �



Balcony (1868)


Study for Balcony (1868)


Édouard Manet

Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets ��


Young woman with a pink shoe (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) (1868)



Woman before a mirror (1876)


Berthe Morisot

Woman at her toilet (1875)


Cheval glass Berthe Morisot�

Psyché / The cheval glass (1876)



Nana (1877)



Portrair of Émile Zola (1868)



At the Café (c.1879)



Study for A Bar at the Folies Bergere (1881)


Bar at the Folies Bergere in x-ray


Reconstruction of Bar at the Folies Bergere by Malcom Park


Reconstruction of Bar at the Folies Bergere’s focal point by Malcom Park


Reconstruction of Bar at the Folies Bergere by Thierry de Duve (right)


Vik Muniz – after Edouard Manet’s Bar at Folies Bergères (2008)


Yin Xin – After Édouard Manet’s Un bar aux Folies Bergere(2002)


Yasumasa Morimura – Daughter of Art History: Theatre B (1998)


Jeff Wall – Picture for Women (1979)

manet enters the bar, or bricolage of the hollow mirrors

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