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“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.
On March 26, the Museum of Modern Art will premiere "A Strange New Beauty," a show dedicated to Edgar Degas monotypes, with related paintings and drawings.
Organizers of ‘Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty’ at the Museum of Modern Art wanted more insight into the impressionist artist’s brashly experimental monotypes. So they plunged into DIY ...
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 ...
Nicholas Jepson claims that a Pearl District gallery owner won't give him back seven Edgar Degas prints, worth at least $160,000. Jack Mongeon said he will return the prints when Jepson settles up ...
Edgar Degas died in his Paris studio on September 27, 1917. His walls were hung with paintings he had worked on again and again, seeking perfection. The great artist was losing his eyesight, yet he ...
Articles about Edgar Degas (1834–1917), a prominent artist famous for his contributions to Impressionism, though he preferred to be called a realist.
Edgar Degas' photograph of Christine Lerolle, 1895-96. Gelatin silver print. An etching of Edgar Degas by Edouard Manet (1864-65) at the Hyde Collection.
From family portraits to absinthe drinkers, racehorses to circus performers, Edgar Degas depicted many subjects in his pieces, but his most prolific output was paintings of young Parisian ballerinas.
Degas made more than 300 monotypes from the 1870s to the late 1890s, and 120 of these rarely exhibited prints, borrowed from collectors all over the world, make up the MoMA show.
In an 1876 Impressionist exhibition in Paris, Degas showed a painting of his family’s cotton office in New Orleans alongside several of his laundress paintings.