In 1866 Édouard Manet painted his friend Zacharie Astruc, poet, critic, painter and sculptor, and dedicated the canvas “To the poet Z. Astruc / his friend Manet 1866”. The Kunsthalle Bremen acquired the portrait in the early twentieth century, one of the first major Manets to enter a German museum, and it is the starting point of this catalog.
The exhibition explored the shared interests of the two friends, setting masterpieces by Manet beside surprising paintings, sculptures and watercolors by Astruc and works by their contemporaries, among them Henri Fantin-Latour, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A special place goes to their common admiration for the art and culture of Spain, followed in the footsteps of Velázquez, El Greco and Goya.
Edited by Dorothee Hansen, who curated the exhibition, the book gathers essays by Sharon Flescher, Gudrun Maurer, Édouard Papet on Astruc as a sculptor, and others, together with the correspondence between Manet and Astruc introduced by Samuel Rodary, biographies of both artists and some 286 color illustrations.
Published in English with the support of the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, it is an important reference on Manet and on Paris in the 1860s.
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