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“I recall the long hours I sat for him… From time to time, as I posed, half-asleep, I looked at the artist standing at his easel, with features drawn, clear-eyed, engrossed in his work. He had forgotten me, he no longer knew I was there, he simply copied me, as if I were some kind of human beast, with a concentration and artistic integrity that I have seen nowhere else.”<\/em> <\/p>\n

Zola’s writings on Manet, the most important of which are presented in this volume, were the first to identify the painter’s seminal role in the emergence of modern art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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