Manet. Masterpieces

Eduar Mane was always in the search: I was looking for "new aspects", forced to “sound new notes. His art was not always accepted by official artistic criticism: he was too distant, and his technique was always distinguished by innovation and courage.
Eduar Mane said that in his work he wanted to be only himself. And all his work speaks of the honest and innovative work of the artist, which was distinguished by the courage and generosity of expressive means. His identity and the desire to write modern life did not always arrange criticism, but the artists spoke about him with enthusiasm and respect: his creative searches forced his contemporaries, and then descendants to consider his work for a kind of artistic discovery. Degas said about him: He was greater than we thought