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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Edouard Manet - At the Café - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 19, 2020. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2020-02-19. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:18, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The Café-Concert
The Café-Concert is an 1879 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Édouard Manet, now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. It is one of several works set in the Brasserie Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart in Paris, depicting social life at the end of the 19th century. The three main figures in the work form a triangle, each seemingly unaware of the presence of the others; the waitress drinks beer, the woman at the bar smokes a cigarette and appears subdued, and the man watches the performance of singer "La Belle Polonaise", reflected in a mirror in the background. The figures of the individuals represented are not clearly defined, but modelled with brushstrokes. Manet was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.Painting credit: Édouard Manet

Remove section 'Off the Wall'?

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Answering my own question 'when?', it seems this 'Off the Wall' outdoor exhibition took place in 2012-13, ie. quite a few years ago now. I think that section should be removed from the article, as it's not really relevant to the painting in question, and IMHO doesn't add anything particularly noteworthy. I guess it could be covered with a one-liner in the Exhibition History section, although even there it's a bit out of place, as it's about exhibiting only a replica and not the real thing. Thoughts? DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:58, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]