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Edouard Manet was a reluctant revolutionary. He had a traditional art education and admired the Old Masters but he developed a loose, painterly technique and preferred to paint genre scenes of everyday Parisian life. Although viewed as a trailblazer of the nascent Impressionist movement, he turned down invitations to exhibit in the seminal Impressionists’ group shows. His final work “A Bar at the Folies Bergere” was shown at the Salon of 1882. This masterpiece marked Manet as a premier painter of modern life, following his own path to the end.