Shop art print and framed art A Bundle of Asparagus by Edouard Manet

Une botte d'asperges, or sometimes La botte d'asperges or simply Botte d'asperges, is a painting by Édouard Manet in 1880. A still life, it shows a bunch of asparagus on a canvas 46 cm high and 55 cm wide. In 1880, art collector Charles Ephrussi commissioned Édouard Manet to paint a still life of a bunch of asparagus for 800 francs. On receiving the work, he gave him 1,000. Manet then decided to offer his generous patron another painting - L'Asperge - of smaller dimensions, which he sent to him with the following note: "There was one missing from your bunch". After Ephrussi, the successive owners were the gallery owner Paul Cassirer (May 1903), then the painter Max Liebermann for 24,300 reichsmarks (6 April 1907). The painting remained in the Liebermann family until 1967, when it was acquired by the banker Hermann Josef Abs for 1,360,000 US dollars. The work is currently on permanent loan to the Wallraf Richartz [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

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