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Browse gifts inspired by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's most recent exhibitions!
Almond Soap
$13.50
Enjoy a moment of self-care by using Almond Soap and delight in its calming and delicate scent.The luxurious soap is enriched with organic shea butter and Nyons olive oil. These two ingredients have protective and skin-softening properties, suitable for use on all skin types. This soap is subtly scented with the sweet fragrance of almond.
The beautiful vintage "Mucha 3" reusable soap tin box was designed by Luc Mazan. These tin boxes are the flagship product of La Savonnerie de Nyons, offering practicality and a unique vintage style. Thus, the "Mucha 3" tin box is a great gift for lovers of vintage designs and the French South.
3.51 oz
Soap manufactured in Nyons, Provence
Fragrance designed in Grasse, the capital of perfume.
Berthe Morisot Magnetic Bookmark
$6.95
Elevate your reading experience with this magnetic bookmark showcasing the delicate art of Berthe Morisot. Crafted with a chic design and strong magnetic closure, this bookmark adds a touch of artistic sophistication to your reading routine. Immerse yourself in Morisot's Impressionist masterpieces as you mark your place in your favorite book.
Measures 1.25" x 2"
Berthe Morisot Notebook
$18.00
Enter the world of Berthe Morisot with this delightful journal from our Women in Art Collection. Crafted with lined sheets and an elastic band closure, it's a practical and stylish accessory for any creative endeavor. Learn more about Morisot's contributions to Impressionism and her fascinating life story through the included artist highlights.
Measures 5.5" x 8.5"
188 lined pages
Berthe Morisot Ornament
$18.95
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Morisot was married to Eugène Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Édouard Manet. Correspondence between Morisot and Édouard Manet shows warm affection; Morisot often posed for Manet.
This ornament of Berthe Morisot shows the painter with palette and brush in hand, wearing a mid- to late-19th century-inspired dress.
Ornaments of other subjects, artists, authors, and notable figures inspired by Isabella and the Museum also available.
Blackcurrant Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, blackcurrant extract
Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat
$33.00
A portrait of the French painter explores the interplay of his life and art and blends the cultural and social history of nineteenth-century Paris with the artist's struggle against adversity.
By Beth Archer Brombert
505 pages
Published by Little Brown & Co, 1996
Hardcover
6.5 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches
Flowers in Art Wallet Notecard Set
$16.95
This wallet notecard set features beautiful notecards with art from Manet, Van Gogh, and more! Each Flowers in Art Wallet Notecard Set contains 12 notecards and envelopes with 3 each of 4 designs.
Each notecards is left blank for your own message.
Note wallet measures 4.5" x 6" x 1"
Notecards measure 4" x 5.75"
Impressionism Artists' Colouring Book
$22.95
The Impressionism Artists' Colouring Book contains 12 sheets of superior acid-free drawing paper, printed with exceptional designs in very light lines. Depending on the drawing techniques used, the original outline will be hardly visible after colouring. The 180 gsm drawing paper comes from one of the best paper mills in Europe and is suitable for a wide range of colouring applications, including pencil, crayon, pastel, felt marker, gouache, and more.
Measures 10" x 13"
Impressionists Pencil Set
$11.95
You're holding a small-scale exhibit - expressive, visionary, evoking the style of the masters. Note your ideas. Capture a sketch. When your muse drops in, let her find you working...Features work by Mary Cassatt, Édouard Manet, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet.
Contains #2 wooden pencils with colorful paint-dipped ends in sets of six unique designs
Pencils measure 7"L
Lavender Soap
$13.50
Enjoy a moment of self-care by using Lavender Soap and delight in its calming and delicate Provençal scent.The luxurious soap is enriched with organic shea butter and Nyons olive oil. These two ingredients have protective and skin-softening properties, suitable for use on all skin types. This soap is subtly scented with a pleasant lavender fragrance.
The beautiful vintage "Provençal Landscape" reusable soap tin box was designed by Luc Mazan. These tin boxes are the flagship product of La Savonnerie de Nyons, offering practicality and a unique vintage style. Thus, the "Provençal Landscape" tin box is a great gift for lovers of vintage designs and the French South.
3.51 oz
Soap manufactured in Nyons, Provence
Fragrance designed in Grasse, the capital of perfume.
Lemon Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
These naturally flavored lemon candies will be sure to please the gourmands of this world.
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, lemon extract
Madame Auguste Manet Magnet
$6.00
Madame Auguste Manet
Édouard Manet (Paris, 1832 - 1883, Paris)
about 1866
oil on panel
This portrait of the artist’s mother, Eugénie-Désirée Fournier Manet, shows her dressed in mourning for her husband, who had died the year before. The thick swatches of black and dark gray paint that form the dress resonate against the lighter, flat paint of the face and hands. The painting is essentially monochromatic and possesses a solidity reminiscent of Manet’s beloved Velázquez. Bernard Berenson called the work “a colossal thing.”
Manet’s mother had encouraged his painting from the beginning, and she remained a close confidant. His stepson described the relationship between Manet and his mother as more than close: “Edouard Manet did not have just an ordinary filial affection for his mother, but rather a real obsession."
In 1909, Isabella Stewart Gardner asked Berenson to find her a portrait by Manet, perhaps to accompany her portrait of Madame Gaujelin by Degas. Both sitters present severe personalities, and both painters found an underlying sympathy beneath these formidable exteriors.
Measures 2.5" x 3.5"
Made in the USA
Madame Manet at Bellevue Coaster
$18.00
Édouard Manet, Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829–1906) at Bellevue, 1880, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail, this painting was preceded by at least two drawings and an oil sketch. This is Édouard Manet's last portrait of his wife; it was painted at Bellevue, a suburb of Paris, where they spent the summer of 1880.
Inspired by this famous Manet painting, this coaster of a detail from Madame Manet at Bellevue is sure to be a touchstone for your experience at the Isabella Stewart Gardner's Fall/Winter exhibition, Manet: A Model Family.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Manet Boxed Notecard Set
$22.95
This collection of exquisite fine art blank note cards features vivid adaptations of Édouard Manet's artwork, including Claude Monet Working on His Boat, Madame Manet (née Suzanne Leenhoff, 1830–1906) at Bellevue, 1880, The Fifer, and The Balcony.
16 blank notecards, 17 envelopes
4 cards of each image
Cards measure 5.375" x 7.125"
Manet Magnet Set
$11.50
A beautiful set of 2 Manet magnets featuring Jeanne (Spring) and Woman with a Cat.
Measure 2.5" x 3.5"
Manet Notecard Wallet
$16.95
A collection of 12 notecards containing four gorgeous images by French painter Édouard Manet marking the transition from realism to impressionism.
Each wallet contains 3 cards each of 4 designs
Notecard Wallet measures 4.5" x 6" x 1"
Notecards measure 4" x 5.75"
Manet to Bracquemond: Unknown Letters to and Artist
$45.00
With his radical usage of etching, painter Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914) influenced his contemporary Édouard Manet (1832–1883) significantly, an influence that is evident in Manet’s oeuvre. The relationship between the two artists, however, was even closer than their art reveals. As the countless letters sent by Manet to Bracquemond—unknown until surfacing at a sale in Paris in 2016—prove, the friendship between the two men was more profound than mere artistic influence.
The letters, collected here for the first time, are presented in their original French and edited by Jean-Paul Bouillon, whose lifelong occupation with Bracquemond’s life and work enabled him to situate the mostly undated letters in their proper time and context. To make these written documents more tangible, an introduction explores the friendship between the two men and highlights the principal subjects and themes around which the correspondence revolves, and the meticulous text is accompanied by nearly fifty color reproductions of the artwork referenced in the letters.
Many of the letters attest to the frequent, at times daily, contacts between the two men, who met in Manet’s studio and at dinners with Manet’s wife and mother. Others concern joint projects, such as the illustration of Émile Zola’s brochure issued on the occasion of Manet’s solo exhibition of 1867. After more than a century of intense scholarship, our knowledge of Manet still presents many gaps. The correspondence presented in Manet to Bracquemond proves an essential new resource for our understanding of the life and work of the artist.
By Jean-Paul Bouillon
136 pages
Published by Ad Illissvm, 2021
Paperback
7.25 x 0.6 x 9.75 inches
Manet's The Cats' Rendezvous Bookmark
$15.00
This bookmark was inspired by The Cats' Rendezvous (1868), a lithograph by Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883, one of the foremost French artists of the 19th century. Considered by some the father of modern painting, Manet was a pivotal figure in the transition from realism to impressionism.
Made of solid brass with electro-plated gold finish
Measures 0.75"W x 1.75"D
Manet's The Fifre Player Metal Bookmark
$17.00
Artists often influence other artists. This was the case with Edouard Manet when he saw first saw Velazquez' work on a visit to the Prado in 1866. With his flat background and vivid brushwork, Velazquez was a revelation.
Back in Paris, Manet began work on a new painting: of an anonymous regimental fifer in the Spanish army. The painting was rejected by the jury of the Salon of 1866. But a year later, Manet funded an exhibition of his own work; and art history changed forever.
Made of solid brass with electro-plated gold finish
Measures 1.5"W x 3.50"D
Manet/Degas
$65.00
The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art
Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their careers in parallel, investigates how their objectives overlapped, diverged, and shaped each other’s artistic choices. Enlivened by archival correspondence and records of firsthand accounts, essays by American and French scholars take a fresh look at the artists’ family relationships, literary friendships, and interconnected social and intellectual circles in Paris; explore their complex depictions of race and class; discuss their political views in the context of wars in France and the United States; compare their artistic practices; and examine how Degas built his personal collection of works by Manet after his friend’s premature death. An illustrated biographical chronology charts their intersecting lives and careers. This lavishly illustrated, in-depth study offers an opportunity to reevaluate some of the most canonical French artworks of the nineteenth century, including Manet’s Olympia, Degas’s The Absinthe Drinker, and other masterworks.
By Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn
316 pages
Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023
Hardcover
9.54 x 1.31 x 11.76 inches
Manet: A Model Family
$49.95
Now Available!
This catalog accompanies the exhibition Manet: A Model Family on view at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from October 10, 2024 - January 20, 2025.
A groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet’s family to his art
All families are complicated, but the family of Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was more complicated than most. The artist married a piano teacher who worked for his wealthy parents. Her son, born out of wedlock, may have been Édouard’s, his father’s, or another man’s. For all its complexities, Manet’s family fueled his creativity. They were his most frequent models, and supported him emotionally and financially. Manet: A Model Family is an innovative new exploration of the largely neglected story of the importance of Manet’s family to his art.
Presenting new research on works in which Manet depicted family members, Manet: A Model Family shows how an understanding of the artist’s family sheds crucial light on his artistic career. Manet’s mother, wife, stepson, and other relatives—including his sister-in-law, the painter Berthe Morisot—are given long overdue recognition for their roles in Manet’s life and work. Leading scholars present technical and archival analysis, including redating Madame Auguste Manet, an important, newly conserved painting of Manet’s mother. In an essay inspired by that canvas, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Hilton Als reconsiders Manet’s formative relationship with his mother and his bourgeois Parisian roots.
With its original account of Manet’s domestic relationships and personal life, Manet: A Model Family humanizes the artist and his contributions to the birth of modernism.
Edited by Diana Seave Greenwald (William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection)
224 pages
Published in association with Princeton University Press, 2024
11.5 x 9 inches
Mark Ellen Mark on the Portrait and the Moment
$29.95
In the fourth installment of The Photography Workshop Series, Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015)—well known for the emotional power of her pictures, be they of people or animals—offers her insight on observing the world and capturing dramatic moments that reveal more than the reality at hand.
Aperture Foundation works with the world’s top photographers to distill their creative approaches to, teachings on, and insights into photography―offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers at all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through words and pictures, in this volume Mark shares her own creative process and discusses a wide range of issues, from gaining the trust of the subject and taking pictures that are controlled but unforced, to organizing the frame so that every part contributes toward telling the story.
By Mary Ellen Mark
128 pages
Published by Aperture, 2015
Paperback
7.5 x 0.5 x 9.9 inches
Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space
$45.00
A close look at a new installation by renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas that marks the first time she has engaged with early American history
Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) has gained an international reputation for her dazzling portraits of Black women, as well as her large-scale installations that physically enfold viewers into lushly decorated, 1970s-inspired domestic interiors. This volume offers a window into Thomas’s unique, multifaceted approach and introduces a new living room–style installation by the artist, in which she creates, for the first time, a homelike environment reminiscent of the pre-abolition era. In addition to period-specific textile patterns and other decorative elements, her installation incorporates a selection of small-scale, early American portraits of Black women, men, and children—from miniatures and daguerreotypes to silhouettes on paper and engravings in books—as well as a group of works by Thomas and other contemporary artists in a wide range of media. The book’s essays examine both how Thomas’s engagement with early American history opens up previously unexplored and fertile ground for her artistic practice and how this project constructs evocative spaces (both physically and textually) in which the lives of early nineteenth-century Black Americans can be recognized on their own terms. With an artist’s statement and extensive photography that captures details of the installation, this presentation documents an exciting direction for one of today’s most acclaimed artists.
By Keely Orgeman with contributions by Deborah Willis
112 pages
Published by Yale University Art Gallery, 2023
Hardcover
8.8 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Mickalene Thomas Scarf
$162.00
Brooklyn artist Mickalene Thomas is best known for her elaborate, collage-inspired paintings, embellished with rhinestones, enamel, and colorful acrylics. Her depictions of African American women explore a spectrum of black female beauty and sexual identity while constructing images of femininity and power. Mickalene's practice often examines interior and exterior environments in relation to the female figure, drawing upon references for 70s pop culture.
This delicate silk embodiment of Mickalene Thomas' A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007) communicates complex notions of femininity, power, identity and the relationships between.
Featuring an all-over print with hand-rolled edges, the scarf provides a way to carry Thomas' work with you wherever you go.
Measures 51" x 39.3"
Mickalene Thomas' Le Dejeuner Jigsaw Puzzle
$39.00
Piece together Mickalene Thomas' evocative work Le Déjeuner sur l'herbs: Les trois femmes noises, that challenges the definitions of beauty and gender found throughout art history. A must have for art admirers, historians and creators alike!
Finished puzzle measures 16" x 11"
Packaging measures 5.9" x 5.9" x 2.75"
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
$60.00
A major monograph chronicling Thomas’ vibrant, rhinestone-adorned painting
New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas’ critically acclaimed and extensive body of work spans painting, collage, print, photography, video, and immersive installations. With influences ranging from 19th-century painting to popular culture, Thomas’ art articulates a complex and empowering vision of womanhood while expanding on and upending common definitions of beauty, sexuality, celebrity, and politics. This major publication further affirms Thomas’ status as a key figure of contemporary art. It features notable works that are arranged in thematic chapters throughout the book.
The book also features an interview with the artist Rachel Thomas and is followed by essays from Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Darnell L. Moore, Claudia Rankine, Ed Schad, Renée Mussai, and Christine Y. Kim, which cover her distinct visual vocabulary, drawing on themes of intergenerational female empowerment, autobiography, memory and tenets of Black feminist theory. In particular, they explore how Thomas subverts art history to reclaim the notions of repose, rest, and leisure in works that celebrate self-expression and joy. For the artist, repose is a radical act, pointing to "what is able to happen once you have the agency."
By Mickalene Thomas
224 pages
Published by D.A.P., 2024
Hardcover
9.25 x 1.25 x 11.5 inches
Mickalene Thomas: I Can't See You Without Me
$39.95
By Mickalene Thomas, with forward by Sherri Geldin, and contributions by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Michael Goodson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Antwaun Sargent
128 pages
Published by Wexner Center for the Arts, 2018
Hardcover
8.4 x 0.4 x 10.9 inches
Mint Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
A delicious and refreshing alternative to classic breath mints, Anis de Flavigny Mint candies are sure to please the palate.
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, natural mint flavoring
Museum Passport Journal
$10.95
The Museum Passport Journal contains 20 entry logs to record details of each museum visit. Each entry page is accompanied by a blank page for notes, drawings or mementos like photos. The back pages of the Museum Passport Journal include bucket lists, best-of lists, and info pages.
Made with foil-stamped stipple cover and center-sewn binding
48 Pages (20 Museums, 8 Bonus Pages)
Measures 3.5" x 5.5"
Old Fashioned Violet Candies
$14.95
These Violet Candles are a beautiful gift or a sweet treat for yourself. Packaged in a 12-sided decorative glass jar with coordinating lid wrap and satin bow, keep this candy on your counter to add a splash of color. Each violet flower-shaped candy is made without artificial flavors or preservatives. Next time you want a quick fix for your sweet tooth, pop one of these candy flowers in your mouth!5.3oz
Made of Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Citric Acid, Violet Flavor, Blue Carmine, Water, Sugar
Made in France
Orange Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
These orange blossom candies have a delicate and fresh flavor, reminiscent of orange citrus yet with a distinctly floral note.
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, neroli extract
Paintbrush Magnifier
$16.95
Bring an artistic touch to your home with this unique, quirky Paintbrush Magnifier! Combining the practicality of a magnifying glass with the fun of a paintbrush, it's sure to add creative flair to your space and make your inner artist smile.
Measures 1.2" x 0.5" x 6.7"
Made with glass, wood, and metal
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
$35.00
The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism.
From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans―then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee shows, it was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was born―in response to violence, civil war, and political intrigue.
In stirring and exceptionally vivid prose, Smee tells the story of those dramatic days through the eyes of great figures of Impressionism. Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Edgar Degas were trapped in Paris during the siege and deeply enmeshed in its politics. Others, including Pierre-August Renoir and Frédéric Bazille, joined regiments outside of the capital, while Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro fled the country just in time. In the aftermath, these artists developed a newfound sense of the fragility of life. That feeling for transience―reflected in Impressionism’s emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things―became the movement’s great contribution to the history of art.
At the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. Smee poignantly depicts their complex relationship, their tangled effect on each other, and their great legacy, while bringing overdue attention to the woman at the heart of Impressionism.
Incisive and absorbing, Paris in Ruins captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune had a profound impact on modern art, and how artistic genius can emerge from darkness and catastrophe.
By Sebastian Smee
384 pages
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Hardcover
6.4 x 1.2 x 9.3 inches
Plum Brandy Coaster
$18.00
Édouard Manet, Plum Brandy, c. 1877, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Édouard Manet's Plum Brandy depicts a woman - actress Ellen Andrée - seated alone at a table in a cafe, in a lethargic pose. She holds an unlit cigarette and her plum soaked in brandy appears untouched. Manet may have based the painting on observations at the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes on the Place Pigalle in Paris. However, the background - the decorative grille and its gold frame - does not match other depictions of the café, and suggests the painting was made in Manet’s studio, where he is known to have had a café-style marble table on iron legs. Manet uses a simple style: for example, the plum in its glass and the fingers of the woman's left hand are created with just a few dabs of colour.
Inspired by this famous Manet painting, this coaster of a detail from Plum Brandy is sure to be a touchstone for your experience at the Isabella Stewart Gardner's Fall/Winter exhibition, Manet: A Model Family.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet & Matisse to Today
$50.00
An ambitious and revelatory investigation of the black female figure in modern art, tracing the legacy of Manet through to contemporary art
This revelatory study investigates how changing modes of representing the black female figure were foundational to the development of modern art. Posing Modernity examines the legacy of Édouard Manet’s Olympia (1863), arguing that this radical painting marked a fitfully evolving shift toward modernist portrayals of the black figure as an active participant in everyday life rather than as an exotic “other.” Denise Murrell explores the little-known interfaces between the avant-gardists of nineteenth-century Paris and the post-abolition community of free black Parisians. She traces the impact of Manet’s reconsideration of the black model into the twentieth century and across the Atlantic, where Henri Matisse visited Harlem jazz clubs and later produced transformative portraits of black dancers as icons of modern beauty. These and other works by the artist are set in dialogue with the urbane “New Negro” portraiture style with which Harlem Renaissance artists including Charles Alston and Laura Wheeler Waring defied racial stereotypes. The book concludes with a look at how Manet’s and Matisse’s depictions influenced Romare Bearden and continue to reverberate in the work of such global contemporary artists as Faith Ringgold, Aimé Mpane, Maud Sulter, and Mickalene Thomas, who draw on art history to explore its multiple voices.
Featuring over 175 illustrations and profiles of several models, Posing Modernity illuminates long-obscured figures and proposes that a history of modernism cannot be complete until it examines the vital role of the black female muse within it.
By Denise Murrell
224 pages
Published by Yale University Press, 2018
Hardcover
10.5 x 9.4 x 0.9 inches
Rose Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
Naturally flavored with extract from rose petals, these candies demonstrate the complex and delicious combination of anise and rose flavors.
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, rose extract
Rose Papier D'Armenie Incense Paper
$12.95
Papier d'Arménie incense paper was created more than 120 years ago and is a respected and much-treasured part of Parisian life. These are famous fragranced paper booklets that have been hand-soaked in a process that takes more than 6 months. Convenient and very easy to use, one strip is enough to gently fragrance any indoor space. To this day, Papier d'Arménie is produced in the same factory in Montrouge, France. Only traditional manufacturing methods are used. The Rose incense papers were created by the famous French-Armenian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian; the scent blends roses from Iran and Turkey with notes of honey.
After cooking or near the family pet, fold a single paper accordion-style, light an end, and quickly blow it out allowing it to burn slowly. Each booklet contains 36 strips.
How to use:
Tear out a strip, fold it into a fan or concertina (accordion) pattern, and place it in a burner or other container such as an ashtray. Light one end of the paper and it will begin to smolder, gently emitting an incredible fragrance based on a traditional recipe of resins that will lightly fragrance the air.
Made in France
The Café-Concert Coaster
$18.00
Édouard Manet, The Café-Concert, ca. 1879, oil on canvas, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
Édouard Manet was the quintessential "Painter of Modern Life," a phrase coined by art critic and poet Charles Baudelaire. In 1878-79, he painted a number of scenes set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen. Here, Manet captures the kaleidoscopic pleasures of Parisian nightlife. The figures are crowded into the compact space of the canvas, each one seemingly oblivious of the others. When exhibited at La Vie Moderne gallery in 1880, this work was praised by some for its unflinching realism and criticized by others for its apparent crudeness.
Inspired by this famous Manet painting, this coaster of a detail from The Café-Concert is sure to be a touchstone for your experience at the Isabella Stewart Gardner's Fall/Winter exhibition, Manet: A Model Family.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
The Luncheon on the Grass Enamel Pin
$13.95
Édouard Manet, a key figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism, painted The Luncheon on the Grass between 1862 and 1863. Originally titled Le Bain (The Bath), this large oil on canvas painting challenged the conventions of its time by depicting a nude woman picnicking with two fully clothed men in a rural setting. Inspired by Renaissance art, particularly the poses from works such as Titian's Pastoral Concert, Manet's composition rejected traditional academic norms. The stark contrasts and flatness presented a new approach to light and form, paving the way for modern art movements. Despite initial scandal and controversy, The Luncheon on the Grass remains a seminal work in art history, illustrating Manet's pivotal role in the evolution of Western art.
Measures 1.25" x 1.75"
Double posted with rubber clasps
The Railway Coaster
$18.00
Édouard Manet, The Railway, 1873, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
The Gare Saint–Lazare, in 1873 the largest and busiest train station in Paris, is unseen in this painting. Advances in industrial technology and train travel, intrinsic to most contemporary depictions of the site, remain in Édouard Manet's painting the almost invisible background for a genre depiction of a woman and child. Confined to a narrow space backed by the black bars of an iron fence and isolated by clouds of steam sent up from a train passing below, Manet's two models are enigmatic presences. The woman is Victorine Meurent, Manet's favorite model in the 1860s, and the child was the daughter of a fellow painter who allowed Manet to use his garden to create The Railway. The composition is a complex contrapuntal apposition of the two figures: one clad in a white dress trimmed with a blue bow and the other dressed in dark blue trimmed with white; one with hair bound by a narrow black ribbon and the other with flowing tresses under a black hat; and one a child standing and looking at anonymous trains and buildings in the background and the other a seated adult staring forward to confront viewers directly.
Inspired by this famous Manet painting, this coaster of a detail from The Railway is sure to be a touchstone for your experience at the Isabella Stewart Gardner's Fall/Winter exhibition, Manet: A Model Family.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé, & Édouard Manet
$60.00
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Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) claimed to have learned English to read Poe, an American poet greatly admired by the French Symbolists. This volume reproduces at full size the first-edition bilingual publication of Le Corbeau / The Raven (Richard Lesclide, Paris, 1875), Mallarmé’s prose translation of Poe’s melancholy poem, including six commissioned illustrations by Édouard Manet—four that visually interpret specific stanzas of the poem, one that serves as the ex-libris and a cover image of a raven’s head that functions as the poem’s title. In addition, a new retranslation back into English of Mallarmé’s text, which was both praised and criticized for its literalism, reveals the particular tenor and subtleties of his reading of Poe’s verse and his feel, as a fellow poet, for the emotive and evocative power of language. The result is a circular exploration of the poem and its translation. The volume also reflects Mallarmé’s specifications for layout, typeface, and paper.
By Edgar Allan Poe and Stéphane Mallarmé, with translation by Holly Cundiff and illustrations by Édouard Manet
20 pages
Published by Lucia|Marquand, 2019
Paperback
8.6 x 0.6 x 21.8 inches
Please note: Our last copy of this out-of-print edition is marked down to reflect light shelf wear on the cover. Pages are not affixed to the binding by design. This item is final sale and cannot be returned.
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
$39.95
Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer’s activism
The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924–87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work. He was often recognized for speaking out against injustice when other like-minded artists, collaborators and organizers were overshadowed or silenced. By bringing together artworks that feature James Baldwin alongside portraits of other key figures who had an impact on his life, This Morning, This Evening, So Soon situates Baldwin among a pantheon of culture bearers who were instrumental in shaping his life and legacy, particularly in relationship to his advocacy for gay rights. The book accompanies an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, curated by the National Portrait Gallery's Director of Curatorial Affairs, Rhea L. Combs, in consultation with Pulitzer Prize–winning author Hilton Als. Well-known portraits by Beauford Delaney and Bernard Gotfryd are shown alongside paintings, photographs and films representing key figures in Baldwin’s circle. By viewing Baldwin in this context of community, readers will come to understand how Baldwin’s sexuality and faith, artistic curiosities and notions of masculinity―coupled with his involvement in the civil rights movement―helped shape his writing and long-lasting legacy.
The book relies on portraiture to explore the interwoven lives of Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry (writer and activist), Barbara Jordan (lawyer, educator and politician), Bayard Rustin (leader in social movements), Lyle Ashton Harris (artist), Essex Hemphill (poet and activist), Marlon Riggs (filmmaker, poet and activist) and Nina Simone (singer-songwriter, pianist and activist), among others.
Artists include: Richard Avedon, Glenn Ligon, Donald Moffett, Beauford Delaney, Bernard Gotfryd, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, Jack Whitten.
112 pages
Published by DelMonico Books/National Portrait Gallery, 2024
Hardcover
9.2 x 0.6 x 12.7 inches
Traditional Papier D'Armenie Incense Paper
$12.95
Papier d'Arménie incense paper was created more than 120 years ago and is a respected and much-treasured part of Parisian life. These are famous fragranced paper booklets that have been hand-soaked in a process that takes more than 6 months. Convenient and very easy to use, one strip is enough to gently fragrance any indoor space. To this day, Papier d'Arménie is produced in the same factory in Montrouge, France. Only traditional manufacturing methods are used. The basic formula and recipe from 1885 remain unchanged. After cooking or near the family pet, fold a single paper accordion-style, light an end, and quickly blow it out allowing it to burn slowly. Each booklet contains 36 strips.
How to use:
Tear out a strip, fold it into a fan or concertina (accordion) pattern, and place it in a burner or other container such as an ashtray. Light one end of the paper and it will begin to smolder, gently emitting an incredible fragrance that is based on a traditional recipe of resins that will lightly fragrance the air.
Made in France
Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists
$34.95
If anyone can teach readers how to pursue the life and work of an artist, it is the twenty-two amazing artists included in Truth Bomb.
This colorful compilation of pioneering and established women artists from around the world motivates and empowers. Their stories and artworks in this volume challenge readers to find solace in the shared human experiences of birth, death, love, anger, joy, and sadness. Truth Bomb offers the best commentary and insight into the incredible formation of diverse women artists such as Yayoi Kusama, Miranda July, Mickalene Thomas, and the Guerrilla Girls while uncovering the power of taking a chance, pushing the envelope, and ultimately not being afraid of making a mark. Each artist tells a story of resilience, tenacity, sacrifice, and steely determination. The result is a magical visual mash-up of images, memories, historic moments, interviews, and inspirational beginnings as told by artists themselves. Truth Bomb is an ode to art and artists and an attempt to decipher the mystery of creativity.
By Abigail Crompton
208 pages
Published by Thames & Hudson, 2020
Measures 9.3 x 1 x 11.3 inches
Hardcover
Violet Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
The suave and mysterious natural violet flavor of these extraordinary candies is sure to awaken your senses!
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, violet extract
Young, Gifted & Black: A New Generation of Artists
$49.95
What’s new, now and next from contemporary Black artists
This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have championed emerging artists of African descent through museum loans and institutional support. But there has never been an opportunity to consider their acclaimed collection as a whole until now.
Edited by writer Antwaun Sargent (author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion), Young, Gifted and Black draws from this collection to shed new light on works by contemporary artists of African descent. At a moment when debates about the politics of visibility within the art world have taken on renewed urgency, and establishment voices such as the New York Times are declaring that “it has become undeniable that African American artists are making much of the best American art today,” Young, Gifted and Black takes stock of how these new voices are impacting the way we think about identity, politics and art history itself.
Young, Gifted and Black contextualizes artworks with contributions from artists, curators and other experts. It features a wide-ranging interview with Bernard Lumpkin and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and an in-depth essay by Antwaun Sargent situating Lumpkin in a long lineage of Black art patrons. A landmark publication, this book illustrates what it means (in the words of Nina Simone) to be young, gifted and Black in contemporary art.
Artists include: Mark Bradford, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton, Pope.L, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Henry Taylor, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Kevin Beasley, Jordan Casteel, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Bethany Collins, Noah Davis, Cy Gavin, Allison Janae Hamilton, Tomashi Jackson, Samuel Levi Jones, Deana Lawson, Norman Lewis, Eric N. Mack, Arcmanoro Niles, Jennifer Packer, Christina Quarles, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sable Elyse Smith, Chanel Thomas, Stacy Lynn Waddell, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Brenna Youngblood, and more.
256 pages
Published by D.A.P., 2020
Hardcover
9.5 x 10.5 inches
© 2024 Gift at the Gardner.
