Eight years ago, a million-dollar pastel by Edgar Degas, was stolen from a museum in Marseille. French customs police just recovered the Impressionist masterpiece in the luggage compartment of a ...

Edgar Degas' "Entrance of the Masked Dancers," c. 1879, part of The Clark's collection, exemplifies the artists' multifaceted use of pastel, with the medium being applied to the surface in different ...

Seventy-nine years after his death, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas has achieved the status he said he wanted, being both “illustrious and unknown.” He is one of the most famous artists of the ...

Tucked away beside a dry cleaners in a dark Paris courtyard, the firm that supplied Impressionist master Edgar Degas with the brilliant pastel colors used in some of his most famous pictures is ...

Christie’s to Offer 2 Pastel Drawings by Edgar Degas. French impressionist Edgar Degas’s Danseuse rose and Femme sortant du bain, representing the artist’s two favorite themes, dancers at ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts presents works by Degas, ... Yet for all he did to revive the medium, he would remain a princeling of pastels. Shortly, Edgar Degas would become their undisputed king.

Hammer is mum on the exact asking price, but said that it was north of the all-time Degas auction record, the $37 million paid at Sotheby’s New York in 2008 for the pastel and gouache ...

Edgar Degas ‘Portraits in an Office (New Orleans),’ 1873. ... The landscapes he turned out—like the superb seaside pastels of 1869—were hardly ever painted en plein air but in his studio, ...

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, ... (1844-1926), Edgar Degas (1834-1917), and Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) from galleries and private collections.

Ask Alan Flattmann about soft pastels and the Covington artist’s enthusiasm and extensive knowledge of the medium is immediately evident. There’s a vibrancy to them “that’s unrivaled ...

In 1879, Edgar Degas made a charcoal and pastel image of two female figures, one standing with a book in her hands, the other seen from behind, leaning slightly on the staff of her closed umbrella.