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On one July 19, 180 years ago this Saturday, a man named Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas was born in Paris, France. You may know him better as Edgar Degas, and you may know him best for his dreamy ...
Edgar Degas' famous drawing previously titled "Russian Dancers" will now be known as "Ukrainian Dancers" after it was retitled by the National Gallery in London.
New exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay reveals the full extent of the artist’s engagement with the Paris Opera.
French impressionist Edgar Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime: “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But he loved sculpting in the privacy of his studio.
Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.
A naturally gifted draftsman, the young Edgar Degas studied briefly at art school, but honed his skills by copying the great artists of the past. Like his good friend Manet, he was slightly older ...
Rarely has there been a more ravishing fusion of frenemies than the one that can be enjoyed at “Manet / Degas,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the first week of next year. Born two years ...
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 ...
Manet and Degas were rich, competitive, and often unpleasant. They also discovered new ways of seeing the people around them.
Climate activists with the group Declare Emergency spread paint on the plexiglass case of Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, a sculpture on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C ...