Luncheons on the Grass - Reimagining Manet's le déjeuner Sur L'Herbe

Jeffrey Deitch; Aruna D'Souza; Marina Molarsky-Beck; Thomas E. Crow

Thirty-five contemporary artists create their own version of Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863) is generally cited as the first modern painting. The entry slide in art history lectures about modernism, the work remains among the "most audacious painting[s] ever seen...