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ÉDOUARD MANET “In 1970 we decided to go to Acapulco for six months, we had an

old Zephyr, one mechanic said it would never make it past Seattle,
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the and another friend, Tom, who owned a garage, said the old Zephyr

first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in always gets you there. Well, there were some problems on the way,
the transition from Realism to Impressionism. fan belt went, a few little things, but after a long arduous trip we

“The Luncheon in the Studio” is an oil painting created by Manet arrived in the heat of the day, hot and humid, like a tropical jungle,
in 1868. It depicts a group of well-dressed people enjoying a meal to one of Mexico’s oldest beach resorts and a port since the early

in a studio setting. The painting is notable for its informal, candid colonial period of Mexico’s history. We rented a great bungalow by
style and its depiction of contemporary life. Manet was a pioneer of the beach and there I painted for six months.

the modernist art movement and “The Luncheon in the Studio” is I wanted to challenge myself by doing a miniature painting of
considered an early example of impressionist painting. Collection Manet’s Luncheon in the Studio 1868, one of my favourite realist

of The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. painters. This painting is now in the Ygartua Family Collection.”

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