In Manet's The Street Singer, one of his first major paintings, it's also the left door that is open, but the door is smaller, wooden, and open all the way. I've been to Boston MFA 3-4 times the last few years and they never seem to have it up.
There's also all sorts of A Bar At the Folies-Bergere similiarites with the reflections. She's not reflected from behind but the blown up girl in the opened door is 180 degrees from the Bar girl's "Suzon"'s reflection. Looks like your face is in the triangle next to the large girl on the right door, in the general male Bar Chap right plane. The woman on the left has her arms in the same position as "Suzon," holding on to a horizontal surface except at a 180 degree angle with her hands behind her rather than in front, the look also inverted by the neck turned towards the viewer.
I saw A Bar at the Folies-Bergere at the Manet mega show at the Met in 1983. Saw the Balthus and Lucian Freud retrospectives too, and a show there of late Bonnards.
Here in Vietnam, I feel for the local painters, for very few get a chance to see world-class paintings in person, although with the internet, they can at least get crude approximations.
I haven't seen either Manet painting. The times I was in London the Courtauld always seemed to be closed. Don't know what the deal is with Boston and Street Singer.
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In Manet's The Street Singer, one of his first major paintings, it's also the left door that is open, but the door is smaller, wooden, and open all the way. I've been to Boston MFA 3-4 times the last few years and they never seem to have it up.
https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/street-singer-33971
There's also all sorts of A Bar At the Folies-Bergere similiarites with the reflections. She's not reflected from behind but the blown up girl in the opened door is 180 degrees from the Bar girl's "Suzon"'s reflection. Looks like your face is in the triangle next to the large girl on the right door, in the general male Bar Chap right plane. The woman on the left has her arms in the same position as "Suzon," holding on to a horizontal surface except at a 180 degree angle with her hands behind her rather than in front, the look also inverted by the neck turned towards the viewer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re
Yo Ian,
I saw A Bar at the Folies-Bergere at the Manet mega show at the Met in 1983. Saw the Balthus and Lucian Freud retrospectives too, and a show there of late Bonnards.
Here in Vietnam, I feel for the local painters, for very few get a chance to see world-class paintings in person, although with the internet, they can at least get crude approximations.
Linh
I haven't seen either Manet painting. The times I was in London the Courtauld always seemed to be closed. Don't know what the deal is with Boston and Street Singer.
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