MANET by Bob Kessel



“Painters, and especially Édouard Manet,
who is an analytic painter,
do not share the masses' obsession with the subject:
to them, the subject is only a pretext to paint,
whereas for the masses only the subject exists.”

— Emile Zola, 1867

Bob Kessel with his painting "Bar Girl" after Manet

 


Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Bob Kessel after Edouard Manet

 

Bar girl by Bob Kessel after Edouard Manet

 

On the beach by Bob Kessel after Edouard Manet

 

Olympia by Bob Kessel after Edouard Manet

 

Monet painting by Bob Kessel after Edouard Manet

 


Bob Kessel with his prints


Bob Kessel is an American artist nationally known for his illustrations which appear in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Tokyo Journal, Japan Times, Berkeley Monthly, San Francisco Metro Magazine, Texas Monthly, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Milken Review and many other national publications. His fine art work is in numerous private and museum collections.
His prints are sold nationwide through Mystic Seaport Museum as part of the "Great Illustrators of America Print Collection".



The pictures on this website are available as limited edition fine art prints and originals. For more information on purchasing these prints contact:
BOB KESSEL

860-334-9438
b.kessel@snet.net

This website is copyrighted by Bob Kessel © 2007
Any unauthorized use of the content contained in this site is prohibited

Famous artists depicted in the Bob Kessel Art History series:

Giovanni Bellinii, Pietro Berninii, Pierre Bonnard, Sandro Botticelli, François Boucher, William Bouguereau, Caravaggio, Marc Chagall, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Courbet, Jacques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix, Otto Dix, Paul Gauguin, Hendrick Goltzius, Francisco de Goya, Francesco Hayez, Erich Heckel, Ando Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Pieter de Hooch, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jan van Kessel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Willem de Kooning, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ferdinand Leger, Frederic Lord Leighton, Edouard Mant, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jean Francois Millet, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Nicolas Poussin, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Karl Schmidt-Rottloff, Peter Paul Rubens, Georges Seurat, Georges de La Tour, Titian, Kitagawa Utamaro, Diego Velazquez, Jan Vermeer, Max Weber