Pierre Courthion
Contributor
Vice President, Syndicate of the French Artistic Press, 1965–78. Author of Klee; Manet; Seurat; and many other monographs on modern European artists.
Primary Contributions (2)
Édouard Manet was a French painter who broke new ground by defying traditional techniques of representation and by choosing subjects from the events and circumstances of his own time. His Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés, aroused the…
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