Degas drawings

The Violinist | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) Seated dancer rubbing her leg, c.1878. Charcoal and pastel on paper.

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman associated with the Impres...

Dancer (Battement in Second Position), 1874, Norton Simon Art Foundation Edgar Degas

(ART.) Archive of letters from the sculptor Richmond Barthé to a close Jamaican friend. 75 items (0.2 linear feet) in one box: 35 Autograph Letters Signed to friend Easton Lee of Jamaica dated 1966 to 1985; 24 signed greeting cards and postcards; 4 telegrams; 3 photocopied circular letters; 7 photographs (2 of them signed and inscribed); and 2 catalogs. Many of the letters have small punch holes and/or are tipped to notebook paper with cello tape; otherwise generally minor wear. Various…

Trois danseuses

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris). Date: 1877. Medium: Mixed media on canvas. Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 32 in. (75.6 x 81.3 cm). Classificati...

Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty Museum of Modern Art, New York City March 26, 2016–July 24, 2016 Reviewed by Ed Voves Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty at the Museum of Modern Art follows in the footsteps of MOMA's 2014 exhibit, Gauguin: Metamorphoses. Both exhibitions treat an aspect of creative expression - printmaking - normally regarded as secondary to the main focus of two artists renowned as painters. Gauguin: Metamorphoses charted the familiar, if exotic, venture to the "savage…

This study of a well-dressed flaneur is similar to Degas' depictions of his urbane and fashionable brother Achille in Paris in the years prior to the artist's 1872 departure for New Orleans. It may have been executed about the same time that Degas prepared A Cotton Office: this bearded gentleman is perhaps an unused stock figure for the finished composition. The purpose of the odd, angular outlines in the lower half of the sheet is unknown.