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EDGAR DEGAS
1834-1917
Self portrait
c.1862
Degas, Edgar
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While he respected the tradition of the old Masters, Degas drew his inspiration from scenes of modern Paris, especially the ballet dancers of the Paris Opera.
Centering and displacing his models and representation of space, figures are often deliberately cut off by the edge of the picture.
His numerous ballet scenes demonstrate his other tendency to endlessly repeat themes
Degas: "one must paint the same subject 10 times, 100 times"
Laundresses, dancers and cabaret singers whom he loved to paint and draw had a reputation for loose morals, so his pictures were though shocking by both the general public and his family.
Related Artists included:
Ando HIROSHIGE,
Marie LAURENCIN,
Henry de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Utamaro,
James Abbot McNeill WHISTLER/
Absinthe, c.1876
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KEY WORKS
Madame Rene de Gas
Four Dancers
Girl Drying Herself
Young Spartans 1854-1859: -
Tate
Gallery London
The Dance Foyer at the Opera 1872:
LOUVRE Paris
The Dance Class 1874:
MUSEE d'ORSAY Paris
Woman Drying Herself 1903:
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
Dancers in Pink
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON
Woman Arranging Her Hair Ordrupgaard-Samlingen Copenhagen
Dancers in the Foyer
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
The Repetition Burrell Collection Glasgow
Jockeys National Gallery of Canada Ottawa
After the Bath Bridgestone Museum of Art Tokyo
The Rehearsal of a Ballet
MUSEE d'ORSAY Paris
Nursemaids Norton-Simon Museum Pasadena
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The Bellelli Family 1858
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MUSEE d'ORSAY Paris
L'Absinthe 1876 -
MUSEE d'ORSAY Paris
The Tub 1886 -
MUSEE d'ORSAY Paris/
The Ballet from "Robert le Diable"- 1872 -
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK
Orchestra at the Opera
1868-9
Edgar Degas
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The Orchestra pit of the Paris Opera highlighting Degas' friend the bassoonist
Desire Dihau.
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Masterworks of Art
The Dance Examination
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Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper 1880 |
Horses |
Woman Combing Her Hair |
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Dancer Seated |
Dancers Adjusting Slippers |
Etude De Danseuse II |
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Frieze of Dancers
c1893-1895
original is oil on canvas in the
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ballet School |
Lying Nude |
Dances in Blue 1890 |
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Dancer Adjusting Her Shoe |
Stage Rehearsal of the Ballet |
Danseuse Sur La Scene |
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The Dancing Class
circa 1873-1876
oil on canvas
Original in the
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Paris
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Dancers in Blue,1897 |
Two Dancers on Stage |
Blue Dancers |
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Ecole De Danse
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Dance Foyer
Wall Tapestry
Degas, Edgar
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Dancer Curtseying
c1875
original is pastel on monotype on paper and in
the
Musee d'Orsay
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Ballerina
Edgar Degas
Little Dancer, Aged 14 (Polychrome Bronze, Muslin, Satin and Wood Base)
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Degas, Edgar
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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1880-1881, Bronze with Muslin Skirt and Satin Hair Ribbon
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This figure of a 14 year old dancer was created in wax c.1879-81. and was the
only sculpture Degas exhibited during his lifetime.
When first exhibited in wax it was dressed in a muslin tutu.
Casts are in international museum collections, including the Tate, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Musee
d'Orsay in Paris.
On february 3 2009 a bronze figure, one of a handful of casts
remaining in private hands was sold by UK collector and philanthopist John
Madejski . It fetched a record 13.3 million pounds, being bought by a private
bidder in Asia.
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