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Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires
2010
Manet's famous arrangement is restaged with three Black women who look directly back.
Artist field note
Mickalene Thomas
Glamour takes control of the gaze.
Appears inThe Discoveries
The five in one idea
Thomas makes glamour a form of agency and puts Black women in command of art history's gaze.