You've likely seen this glassy-eyed late 19th Century barmaid before, but what can we make of this painting today?
Location: Courtauld Gallery
Griselda Pollock unpacks some of the questions raised by Manet’s last masterpiece.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère with Griselda ...
Manet turns the tables—or in this case, the bar—on how we view painting.
Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
The Paris Opera was a who’s who of society, and the attendees were as much on display as the performers.
Auguste Renoir, La Loge
Is that a lion, or a dog? Cranach’s peculiar animals have us scratching our heads along with Adam.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve
Gauguin’s nude is suspended between dreams and reality— just like his imperialistic vision of Tahiti.
Paul Gauguin, Nevermore
All conventions of perspective are called into question in Cézanne’s meditation on the nature of experience.
Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Plaster Cupid
An optimistic message to his doctors, or a farewell letter to his utopian artistic dream? We’re all ears.