Tag: Manet
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13 works, 32 years later Boston’s $500M art heist remains mystery, with footnotes
13 paintings (by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Manet) vanished on March 18, 1990. The 25th anniversary of the infamous heist; where two men dressed as police officers gained entry to the museum, tied up the security officers and swiped 13 works worth an estimated $500 million. The museum continues to offer a $5 million reward for…
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30 Works, Today, January 23th is artist Édouard Manet’s day, his story, illustrated #023
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832–30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was born in Paris, to an affluent and well-connected family. His uncle, Edmond Fournier, encouraged him to pursue painting and took young Manet to the Louvre. In 1845, at the advice of his uncle, Manet enrolled in a special course of drawing ……
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