By Hilton Kramer 12/01/03 12:00am

Old Manet and Sea: The First Modernist

The French artist Édouard Manet (1832-83) is often said to have been the first modernist painter-the father, as it were, of Impressionism and the great succession of avant-garde movements that followed in its wake. In fact, there’s just enough truth in the claim to render it plausible, even at this distance in time. But it Read More