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Colin Bailey: [0:04] ...an artist who died too young, actually, who died in his fifties,
who left a limited oeuvre that revolutionized, literally changed the way modern art would
look. The father of the Impressionists, never painting with the Impressionists, but encouraging
them to move forward. And to have a painting by Manet is -- Fine Arts has more than one
-- to have works by him is really a thrill. This is The Milliner.
[0:30] It's a picture that didn't sell. He didn't sell it. He may not have finished it.
It was in his collection when he died. Just looking at the picture, it's a little strange
that the painting has been called At the Milliner's, At the Hat Shop. Do you go to a hat shop in
deshabille, do you go to a hat shop with your shoulders bare? You don't. So what is happening
here? Yes, there are hats. There's a very elegant woman who's showing her shoulders,
and she's putting on hats.
[1:02] Or is she in a shop at all? Is she at home? Is she a woman of a certain luxury
or a certain type of woman, a courtesan, perhaps, who has in her boudoir, next to the her boudoir,
a room with some of the costumes?
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