Manet Reproduction of
A Bar at the Folies Bergere

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère

Oil on canvas, 1882
96 x 130 cm (38 x 51 ins)

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A Bar at the Folies Bergere, Manet’s last painting, was in fact painted in 1881, but it was dated 1882 and was first shown in the Salon of that year.

Manet was now becoming crippled by the disease (locomotor ataxia) that would kill him in the following year, and henceforward he would be unable to work on anything more ambitious than small scale pastels and water colors.

By the Salon of 1882 he had finally earned complete acceptance by the art establishment and he was to be made a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur just after the Salon closed. But his work was still not fully understood: spectators attuned to the story-telling art of the usual Salon painter paid much more attention to the subject-matter of his paintings than to their technique.

The virtuosity with which lights and reflections are handled, and with which the textures of glass and marble and fabric and fruit are differentiated, escaped contemporary critics entirely.

This picture displays Manet’s skill in portraying all the complexities of light and perspective imposed by this scene of the cabaret at the Folies-Bergère, depicted as it were by the viewer approaching the bar and witnessing the panorama displayed in the reflection in the mirror behind the waitress.

On watching Manet at work on this masterpiece, an observer later described his methods: “The model, an attractive girl, posed behind a table loaded with bottles and food... Manet, although painting his pictures from the model, by no means copied nature; I realize how splendid his simplifications were. The head of the woman is modelled, but his modelling was not obtained by means revealed by nature. Everything was abbreviated. The tones were clearer, the colors more lively, the values closer. This formed a tender and blond harmonious whole”.

The painting was shown at the Salon of 1882 and as ever, the unconventional subject-matter was more savagely attacked than his original techniques which were never fully appreciated in his lifetime.

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