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Edouard Manet
"Who says that design is the writing of form? The truth is that art must be the writing of life."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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Édouard Manet a cinquante et un ans lorsque, affaibli depuis plusieurs années par une syphilis contractée à Rio, il s’éteint le 30 avril 1883 à Paris. Son inhumation, le 3 mai 1883, a lieu au cimetière de Passy, en présence notamment d’Emile Zola, d’Alfred Stevens, de Claude Monet, d’Edgar Degas et d’Antonin Proust, son camarade de toujours ; ce dernier dira « Dans le convoi funèbre, on voyait des couronnes, des fleurs, et beaucoup de femmes ». En son hommage, avec respect, une pivoine blanche.
"Il faut être de son temps, faire ce que l’on voit sans s’inquiéter de la mode." - Edouard Manet
"Il faut être de son temps, faire ce que l’on voit sans s’inquiéter de la mode." - Edouard Manet
"J’ai admiré la vérité de sa manière." - Prosper Mérimée
"J'ai horreur de ce qui est inutile. La cuisine de la peinture nous a pervertis. Comment s'en débarrasser ? Qui nous rendra le simple et le clair, qui nous délivrera du tarabiscotage ?" - Edouard Manet
"Pour un peu, il aurait supprimé les demi-teintes. Le passage immédiat de l’ombre à la lumière était sa constante recherche. Chez Titien, les ombres lumineuses l’enthousiasmaient. Les primitifs l'affolaient." - Antonin Proust
"Personne ne s'était encore mis en face de ces choses-là, ne les avait ainsi vues, et nul ne les avait ainsi peintes." - Pierre Daix
Notes of biography
Edouard Manet is born in Paris in 1832. Born into a wealthy family, he thinks very early of a career in the Navy but fails the entrance examination to the Naval College. Yet he sails for South America on a school boat and realizes during this trip, many drawings. When some months later Manet returns to Paris, his choice is clear, he decides to study painting and enters the Workshop of Thomas Couture.
From 1852, the young man travels to complete his studies in painting: in Holland, he particularly appreciates the works of Frans Hals. He travels to Germany, then to Austria, Italy and Spain, where he is especially enthusiastic about the paintings of Velasquez and Goya. The influence of Spanish masters as the "Child with Cherries" or "Child with the Dog" in his early works, is certain; from the every day life, his subjects are treated with great force, marked by contrasts of light obtained with pure colors.
Edouard Manet becomes known thanks to the exhibition of seventeen of his paintings at the Martinet Galerie, which includes "Lola de Valence" and "Music in the Tuileries Gardens”. The critic is strict with him, but painters like Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Cezanne recognizes his art and see him almost immediately as their leader. In 1863, the "Déjeuner sur l'herbe" is exhibited at the Salon of Refuses, exhibition that brings together works that have not been accepted by the Salon, the painting causes a scandal, because a young woman sat naked in nature between two men in costume!
A new scandal breaks out in 1865, inspired by the "Venus of Urbino" by Titian, his "Olympia" - this time accepted by the Salon - raises a wave of protest among advocates of academic painting and unleashes the public outrage who does not tolerate the realism of the work.
In 1866, the jury of the Salon refuses "The Fife Player” (now at the Musée d'Orsay), a canvas at once full of strength and sobriety. These failures do not discourage official Manet. With the support of his friends, among whom is Emile Zola, Manet continues his work and presents the "Déjeuner à l'atelier" and "The Balcony" at the Salon of 1869.
The Impressionists claim him. From 1873, Edouard Manet finally experiencing the success, but despite his friendship with Monet and other painters of this school, he chooses not to participate in the Impressionist exhibition of 1874. The artist continues to exhibit regularly at the Salon, where he presents his latest work, in 1882, "A Bar at the Folies Bergere” which is not one of the least complete.
When Edouard Manet dies in Paris in April 1883, he left behind him a rich work of over four hundred paintings and a large number of pastels and watercolors.
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Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
* « L’oeuvre gravé », par Jean C. Harris, Ed. Collectors Editions, New York, 1970
* « Pastels, aquarelles et dessins », D. Rouart et D. Wildenstein, Ed. La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne, 1975
* « Peintures », D. Rouart et D. Wildenstein, Ed. La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne, 1975
* « L’oeuvre gravé », Département des Estampes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1977
* « Eaux-fortes - Lithographies », Juliet Wilson, Ed. Huguette Berés, Paris, 1978
Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Manet », Eric Darragon, Ed. Fayard, Paris, 1989
- « Manet : J’ai fait ce que j’ai vu », F. Cachin, Ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1990
- « Manet, monographie », Eric Darragon, Ed. Citadelles et Mazenod, 1991
- « M comme Manet », Marie Sellier, Ed. R.M.N., Paris, 1994
- « L’ABCdaire de Manet », collectif, Ed. Flammarion, Paris, 1998
- « Manet et Mallarmé », Serge Bismuth, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2002
- « Manet inventeur du moderne », collectif, Ed. RMN, Paris, 2011
- « Découvrir Manet », G. Denizeau, Ed. Larousse, Paris, 2011
- « Manet, le premier des modernes », Eloi Rousseau, Ed. Palette, 2011
- « E. Manet, les Femmes », Pludermacher Isolde, Ed. des Falaises, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « Edouard Manet : souvenirs », Antonin Proust, Ed. L'Échoppe, Paris, 1996
- « Édouard Manet, Voyage à Rio : lettres de jeunesse, 1848-1849 », Ed. du Sandre, 2005
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Stamp by Edouard Manet
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
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A tribute to Edouard Manet
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
Édouard Manet a cinquante et un ans lorsque, affaibli depuis plusieurs années par une syphilis contractée à Rio, il s’éteint le 30 avril 1883 à Paris. Son inhumation, le 3 mai 1883, a lieu au cimetière de Passy, en présence notamment d’Emile Zola, d’Alfred Stevens, de Claude Monet, d’Edgar Degas et d’Antonin Proust, son camarade de toujours ; ce dernier dira « Dans le convoi funèbre, on voyait des couronnes, des fleurs, et beaucoup de femmes ». En son hommage, avec respect, une pivoine blanche.
"Il faut être de son temps, faire ce que l’on voit sans s’inquiéter de la mode." - Edouard Manet
"Il faut être de son temps, faire ce que l’on voit sans s’inquiéter de la mode." - Edouard Manet
"J’ai admiré la vérité de sa manière." - Prosper Mérimée
"J'ai horreur de ce qui est inutile. La cuisine de la peinture nous a pervertis. Comment s'en débarrasser ? Qui nous rendra le simple et le clair, qui nous délivrera du tarabiscotage ?" - Edouard Manet
"Pour un peu, il aurait supprimé les demi-teintes. Le passage immédiat de l’ombre à la lumière était sa constante recherche. Chez Titien, les ombres lumineuses l’enthousiasmaient. Les primitifs l'affolaient." - Antonin Proust
"Personne ne s'était encore mis en face de ces choses-là, ne les avait ainsi vues, et nul ne les avait ainsi peintes." - Pierre Daix
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