The exhibition, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings," now at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore ... and Still Life with Brioche (1880), with a cat's head emerging from the black background, are high ...
the vase floats above a surface and emerges from a diaphanous blue background. Not concerned with realism, the artist explained that, “I am painting archetypes of floral still lifes, where my ...