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Conversation: The Unknown Manet

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Édouard Manet. Jeanne (Spring), 1881. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Join curator Gloria Groom, chair and David and Mary Winton Green Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, and Scott Allan, associate curator of paintings at the Getty Museum, to explore Manet’s later works and the artist’s preoccupation with fashionable Parisian femininity toward the end of his career. 

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Scott Allan


About the Speaker
Scott Allan is associate curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and co-curator of Manet and Modern Beauty. A specialist in 19th-century European painting, particularly French, he completed his masters degree at Williams College in 1999 and doctorate at Princeton University in 2007. Since starting at the Getty in 2006, he has curated several major exhibitions, including Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (2007), The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (2010), The Scandalous Art of James Ensor (2014), and Unruly Nature: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau (2016).

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Support for public programs is provided in part by the Woman’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago

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