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“Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes” (Merrell: 128 pp., $29.95) captures his evolution from the static view of verdant hills beyond his grandfather’s summer villa near Naples in 1856 to the ...
Like the others, Degas painted scenes from modern life; unlike them, he rarely produced landscapes, preferring interiors and the artificial light of the theater and ballet.
The landscape, “ View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme,” is from 1896-98—in the midst of the Dreyfus affair—and its palette is actually darker and more drab than in the online reproduction. The ...
In the most extreme of Degas’ landscapes, such as the two impressions of the same plate, both titled “Autumn Landscape (L’Estérel),” from 1890, the monotype is a thing, a stained, mottled ...
“Edgar Degas: A Multimedia Artist in the Age of Impressionism," on view at The Clark through Oct. 6, celebrates the innovation of one of the impressionist movement's masters.
From the vibrant urban centers of Paris and London to the tranquil beauty of the Norman and Welsh coastlines, we take a look ...
Two climate activists who allegedly smeared paint on a case surrounding 19th century French artist Edgar Degas’ "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery ...
From Claude Monet to Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Impressionism has left a legacy of legendary canvases you can see in the world's most prestigious museums. Let’s take a tour!
One of the two climate activists charged earlier this year for smearing paint over the display of a famed Edgar Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art pleaded guilty to damaging museum prop… ...
That’s when Edgar Degas and his fellow Impressionists began to reflect contemporary urban life of the city rather than the conservative pastoral landscapes and still lifes of the earlier era.