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MANET, Edouard, Olympia, 1902
Edouard Manet was born on January 23, 1832, in Paris. While studying with Thomas Couture from 1850 to 1856, he drew at the Académie Suisse a… [Read biography »]
Signed Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883), Original Wood Engraving, Olympia, 1902  |
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| Artist: | Manet, Edouard (1832 - 1883) |
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| Title: | Olympia, 1902 |
| Medium: | Original Wood Engraving |
| Image Size: | 5.1 in x 7.3 in (13.2 cm x 18.5 cm) |
| Sheet Size: | 9 in x 11 in (22.9 cm x 27.9 cm) |
| Framed Size: | 22 3/4 in x 21 3/4 in (57.79 cm x 55.25 cm) |
| Signed: | The work is signed in the plate Manet in the lower central portion of the image |
| Edition: | From the 1902 Duret edition, engraved by Moller after the original drawing by Edouard Manet |
| Condition: | Very good condition; a bold impression |
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Created in 1902 for the edition by Duret, this original wood engraving was by Moller after the original drawing of Olympia by Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883) done in 1867. Signed by Edouard Manet in the lower left of the work, ‘Manet.’ Of this print, Wilson-Bareau states in his 1983 catalogue, “if it really was intended for the celebrated Paris-Guide published by Lacroix on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle of 1867, Manet misjudged the format, since the size of the image on the block exceeds that of the guide itself.” (Harris, 262.) When this piece was first displayed in 1865 at the Paris Salon, it was greatly ridiculed and largely disliked due to the subject matter and artistic style. However, today many consider the work to be one of Manet’s greatest achievements. Catalogue Raisonné & COA: 1. Harris, J. C. (1990) Edouard Manet: The Graphic Work, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts: San Francisco. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. 90 on pg. 262. About the Framing: | |
Biography of Edouard Manet
Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
Edouard Manet was born on January 23, 1832, in Paris. While studying with Thomas Couture from 1850 to 1856, he drew at the Académie Suisse and copied the Old Masters at the Musée du Louvre. After he left Couture’s studio, Manet traveled extensively in Europe, visiting Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Italy. In 1859 he was rejected by the official Paris Salon, although Eugène Delacroix intervened on his behalf. In 1861 Manet’s paintings were accepted by the Salon and received favorable press, and he began exhibiting at the Galerie Martinet in Paris. During the early 1860s his friendships with Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Degas began. The three paintings Manet sent to the Salon of 1863, including Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (see p. 37), were relegated to the Salon des Refusés, where they attracted the attention of the critic Théophile Thoré.
In 1865 Manet’s Olympia and Christ Mocked were greeted with great hostility when shown at the Salon. That year the painter traveled to Spain, where he met Théodore Duret. He became a friend of Emile Zola in 1866, when the writer defended him in a controversial article for the periodical L’Evènement. In 1867 Zola published a longer article on Manet, who that year exhibited his work in an independent pavilion at the Paris World’s Fair. The artist spent the first of several summers in Boulogne at this time. In 1868 two of his works were accepted by the Salon but were not shown to advantage.
The dealer Paul Durand-Ruel began buying his work in 1872. That same year The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama was shown at the Salon, and Manet traveled to the Netherlands for the second time. The poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who met the artist in 1873, wrote articles about him in 1874 and 1876 and remained a close lifelong friend. Manet declined to show with the Impressionists in their first exhibition in 1874. That summer he worked at Gennevilliers and Argenteuil with Claude Monet and the following year he visited Venice. In 1876 he exhibited Olympia and two paintings rejected that year by the Salon at his own studio. From 1879 to 1882 Manet participated annually at the Salon. In 1880 he was given a solo exhibition at Georges Charpentier’s new gallery, La Vie Moderne, Paris. In 1881 Manet, then ailing, was decorated with the Légion d’Honneur. He died on April 30, 1883, in Paris. A memorial exhibition of his work took place at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts the following year.
