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Paris Museum Puts Édouard Manet on Mock Trial for Painting a Scandalous Scene of a Nude Woman

The title of Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass in English) sounds innocent enough, but the 1863 painting generated quite the scandal in 19th-century Paris. In the ...

Her life ‘shattered into a million pieces.’ 14 years later, she’s stronger than ever

Jenedy Paige has worked hard to build — and rebuild — physical, mental and spiritual strength. It’s something she’s come to ...

No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.

For years, Michaelina Wautier’s paintings were attributed to men. Then a chance discovery in a Vienna museum helped bring the ...
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Picasso painting unseen for 80 years up for auction

An oil painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen by the public for more than 80 years, will go under the hammer in Paris next month.The painting, “Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat,” depicts French ...
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This Forgotten Picasso Painting Just Emerged From the Shadows for the First Time Since 1944

Pablo Picasso created his masterpiece, Guernica, in his Paris studio in 1937. When the Nazis invaded the city three years later, he kept working. In the midst of the occupation, he painted a ...