Edouard Manet’s last major painting A Bar at the Folies Bergere is a complex and intriguing composition that avoids singular interpretations. In this article, Singulart deciphers the details of this masterpiece and discusses the life of one of the forefathers of Modernism. Who was Edouard Manet? Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French modernist painter born in Paris to a wealthy…