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At the Royal Academy

Julian Bell: Manet, 21 February 2013

... suits depicted, is accompanied by an equally lushly documented catalogue, edited by its curator, Gloria Groom (Yale, £45). The category of painting so formed places Manet in the midst of a stylistic spectrum. To the right, high definition: Tissot with his eerily depressive tinted photo-paintings, the suave Carolus-Duran and the refined ...

Men Watching Men

Tom Crewe, 2 April 2026

Caillebotte: Painting Is a Serious Game 
by Amaury Chardeau.
Norma, 256 pp., £44, December 2024, 978 2 37666 095 8
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Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men 
edited by Scott Allan, Gloria Groom and Paul Perrin.
Getty, 247 pp., £45, January 2025, 978 1 60606 944 8
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... that is so intriguing: the naked man has ‘taken a bath that Caillebotte has witnessed’, Gloria Groom wrote in the catalogue for the Royal Academy exhibition, ‘or staged to look as if he had done so’, and is now being closely observed. Caillebotte draws our attention to this mysterious before – it is one of those longings he implants in ...

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