Nor were the paintings of other artists off-limits. He once slashed an intimate double portrait of himself and his wife, Suzanne, that Edgar Degas had gifted to the Manets in exchange for a still ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is ... contemporary art may baffle on purpose, but put people in a gallery with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro, and explanatory wall ...