Suzon was one of those “merchant of drinks and love” described by guy de Maupassant. She was at the bar of the Folies-Bergère. Manet has no doubt loved to have it painted so beautiful and so melancholy, in a game of mirrors fixing symbolizing, perhaps, the delights often dummy the Paris of the Belle Époque. This is one of his latest works. The syphilis will kill it at 51 years old, a few months after the final touch. This season, A bar at the Folies-Bergère returns to the vicinity of the place where it was executed and where Suzon lived, between the workshop of Velazquez des Batignolles and the Grands Boulevards, dear to the night owls.

Suzon officiated at the bar of the Folies-Bergère. Manet has no doubt loved to have it painted so beautiful and so melancholy, in a game of mirrors fixing

It is number of masterpieces of impressionist and post-impressionist works together and scénographiés by Suzanne Pagé, in the seven spaces on the lower level of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. These sixty oils and graphic works belong to the Institute of art the Courtauld in London (in the works for at least two years) or have been acquired for the …

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