Philip French 

Exhibition: Manet – Portraying Life, at the Royal Academy – review

This attempt to bring the Royal Academy's Manet exhibition to a wider audience is laudable but slightly awkward, writes Philip French
  
  

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Manet's Interior at Arcachon, 1871. Photograph courtesy of Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA/Michael Agee. Photograph: PR

Less impressive than Grabsky's lucid documentaries on Beethoven and Haydn, this is intended for the many people who have not made it to the Manet show in London. It's sound, informative, intelligent, but Tim Marlow's interviews in front of the paintings (with, among others, an eloquent Fiona Shaw) are rather awkwardly conducted.

 

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