LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS EXHIBITION

Luncheon On The Grass, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles

Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) is regularly cited as the first modern painting. It is often featured as the first slide in Art History lectures about the history of modernism. More than thirty of today’s most acclaimed painters will respond to Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe in Luncheon on the Grass at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles. Artists began creating works in response to Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe within two years of its exhibition in the 1863 Salon des Refusés. From Claude Monet to Pablo Picasso, and more recently Robert Colescott, artists have turned to Manet’s painting as a source of radical and contradictory possibilities for painting.