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  • noun Plural form of Manet.

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Examples

  • Other Manets also assert his independence of academic norms: roughly painted "living" portraits of his friends; a small boat of escapees (1881) in a vast green ocean of paint; a sprawling, sensuous "Woman With Fans" (1873); "Moonlight Over the Port of Boulogne" (1869).

    The Best and the Rest David Littlejohn 2010

  • Luckily, the strained concept doesn't ruin the show, and any nagging worries about Manicheism disappear in the sheer pleasure of seeing so many Manets all at once.

    Still Turning Black to Light Judy Fayard 2011

  • I can't speak for his restoration talents from personal experience, since I'm happy to report that all my Picassos, as well as my Modiglianis, Manets and Michelangelos, are holding up just fine.

    Picassos in Reverse Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • However, it is iconic post-Impressionist and early Modernist paintings, 181 Renoirs, 69 Cézannes, 46 Picassos 59 Matisses, Modiglianis, Degases, Manets, Monets, Van Goghs and others which account for the fabled status of this unique institution.

    Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations 2010

  • Even in today's sluggish economy, prices for Van Goghs and Manets have been skyrocketing.

    This Is No 'Thomas Crown' Affair Ulrich Boser 2010

  • The obsessively secretive 80-year-old, who maintained ironclad control over his family, their century-old art dynasty, and their fabled European Allez France Stables, had amassed not only an estimated $5 billion fortune but also an unrivaled art collection (Botticellis, Rembrandts, Manets, Monets).

    Postscript Andrews, Suzanna 2008

  • The London-born Mr. Guinness had hoped to give his entire collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a musical snuffbox and an automaton clock in the shape of a lion would have shared space with the Manets, as well as with the musical clocks, watches and boxes already on view there.

    Musical Machines, Living Dolls 2008

  • Paul Allen of Microsoft is snapping up Cezannes, Manets, Gauguins and impressionists in general.

    March 2005 2005

  • I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

  • I went there nearly every day for the Cézannes and to see the Manets and the Monets and the other Impressionists that I had first come to know about in the Art Institute at Chicago.

    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 1992

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