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New Orleans-based historic site, boutique hotel, and event venue, Degas House remembers the impact of impressionism over 150 years since its inception. Defined by the French Ministry of Culture as ...
Degas’s paintings of ballerinas often reference a darker side of the dance industry in the late 19th century, when ballet’s popularity was beginning to fade and many dancers from lower-class ...
Degas’ masterpiece The Dance Class shatters the traditional impression of ballet dancers and exposes the truth behind the curtains of the 19th-century Parisian stage. It gives an insight into the ...
“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.
Pastel sketches of Ukrainian folk dancers stamping and kicking show Degas’s interest in movement and he also studied horse-racing, circus performers and laundry workers.
Chrysler Museum receives grant to begin meticulous research, restoration of a Degas painting $70,000 grant funds work on ‘Dancer With Bouquets,’ its origins and provenance.
Purdue University will host an opening reception Sept. 17 at the Purdue Memorial Union for a collection of 74 sculptures by French impressionist Edgar Degas. Valued at more than $21 million with a ...
What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
Degas’s beautiful ballet dancers have captured the hearts of art enthusiasts the world over. One might expect his seemingly countless images of this theme to focus primarily on the diaphanous ...
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.
The two climate activists who smeared paint on Edgar Degas’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” (1878–1881) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, earlier this spring have been indicted.