Edgar Degas

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Edgar Degas – Woman Combing Her Hair
from 108,00 €
Woman Combing Her Hair shows a woman seated with her back to us, bare to the waist, a white cloth falling across her lap and legs. She has pulled her long chestnut hair forward over her shoulder; her right hand holds it at the crown, her left hand low down [...]
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Edgar Degas – Dancers at the Barre
from 132,00 €
Dancers at the Barre is a work by Edgar Degas from around 1900, in which two dancers practise at a horizontal barre against a burning orange ground. The original is held by The Phillips Collection in Washington under accession number 0479, measures 130.2 x 97.8 cm and is painted in [...]
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Edgar Degas – Beach Scene
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Beach Scene shows a girl lying on a white cloth and a maid combing her hair after bathing; two parasols, a basket and a summer bonnet lie scattered around them, and in the background a family wrapped in towels leaves the shoreline. As a canvas painting this is a wide, [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Ironer against the Light
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The Ironer against the Light shows a woman standing in profile at the ironing table, leaning forward into light that comes from behind her. Her head is lowered and her face turned down to the work; the dark hair is covered by a pale cloth knotted at the top. Her [...]
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Edgar Degas – Four Ballerinas on Stage
from 124,00 €
Four Ballerinas on Stage crowds four dancers into the right two thirds of the canvas, seen close to, with the one at the far right cut by the edge. All lean and bend to the left with outstretched arms, so the bodies form a diagonal from the lower left towards [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Rehearsal
from 188,00 €
The Rehearsal shows a practice room at the Paris Opéra whose middle is empty, with everything that happens pushed to the edges. On the left a spiral staircase cuts into the scene; dancers come down it and we see them only as far as the knees. Left of centre two [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Laundress
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The Laundress shows a young woman pressing an iron down onto white linen with both hands. We see her close and slightly from the side, from the top edge of the table; her head is bowed, her face turned down, her hair loose at the back. She wears a white [...]
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Edgar Degas – Woman Ironing
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Woman Ironing shows a young woman standing behind a table covered with a large pale sheet. She wears a loose white blouse and a dark blue-grey apron; both arms reach forward, and with her right hand she presses the iron onto the cloth. She looks straight out at us, calm [...]
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Edgar Degas – Dance Rehearsal in the Foyer
from 108,00 €
Dance Rehearsal in the Foyer shows a tall, greenish-grey practice room at the Paris Opéra during a rehearsal. Three tall arched windows at the back let in a pale daylight, a heavy brown column stands right of centre, a wooden barre runs along the right-hand wall, and at the lower [...]
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Edgar Degas – Madame René De Gas
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Madame René De Gas is a portrait of a woman who was going blind, painted by a man who had just learned that his own sight was failing. She sits at the centre of a pale couch and looks towards us, her head turned a little to her right, the [...]
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Edgar Degas – Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli
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Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli shows a married couple in a room. The woman sits on a red sofa, turned towards us, in a wide cream crinoline with a bright red shawl over her shoulders and a white collar; in her lap she holds a folded fan, and she looks straight [...]
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Edgar Degas – Alexander and Bucephalus
from 108,00 €
Alexander and Bucephalus is a large early Degas, and almost nothing about it looks like the Degas most people know. Across a wide sandy path a young man strides in a short white tunic, barefoot, his body pressed forward; behind him a pale blue-green cloak lifts in an arc, held [...]
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Edgar Degas – Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet
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Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet shows a very young man in a dark blue naval uniform, standing in front of a plain red-brown wall. On his head is a black peaked cap with a gold anchor and a gold band; a gold cord with tassels hangs [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Convalescent
from 108,00 €
The Convalescent shows a young woman seated in an armchair, wrapped in a heavy dark brown robe over a white nightdress. She has laid her head against her raised hand, propped on the back of the chair; her face is pale and tired, with shadows under the eyes — and [...]
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Edgar Degas – Young Woman with Ibis
from 132,00 €
Young Woman with Ibis shows a young woman in a dark blue-green robe and cloak standing behind a dark parapet; a scarlet ibis stands on her outstretched left hand, and a second stands on the parapet at the right with its neck raised. Behind them spreads a coral-pink sky and [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Ballet from Robert le Diable
from 108,00 €
The Ballet from Robert le Diable shows a theatre scene seen from a seat in the house: below, a dark row of the heads and backs of men in black coats with white collars, the neck of a double bass among them, above them the narrow bright line of the [...]
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Edgar Degas – Mademoiselle Marie Dihau
from 124,00 €
Mademoiselle Marie Dihau shows a woman in strict profile, turned to the left, seated at a table. She wears a dark dress with a fur collar and a dark hat with a green feather and a dark ribbon falling behind her neck; a black earring hangs at her ear. At [...]
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Edgar Degas – View of Rome from the Banks of the Tiber
from 188,00 €
View of Rome from the Banks of the Tiber is a small scene in which nearly two thirds of the surface is sky. It is golden and honey-coloured, without a single sharp cloud; below it the outline of the city stretches away in a soft violet grey, and out of [...]
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Edgar Degas – Washerwomen
from 124,00 €
Washerwomen is a small canvas with two women’s heads and a single gesture that the museum’s own title explains. The woman at the left is seen in profile, turned to the right; a pale headscarf is pulled over her dark hair and she is dressed in dark clothes. The woman [...]
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Edgar Degas – Degas and Évariste de Valernes
from 108,00 €
Degas and Évariste de Valernes is a double portrait in which one of the two men is the painter himself. They sit side by side in front of a window. The older man at the left wears a black top hat and a dark coat, has a grey moustache and [...]
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Edgar Degas – Blue Dancers
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Blue Dancers shows a group of dancers in blue skirts standing close together just before going on. One raises both arms to her hair, another adjusts a strap, a third leans forward; the faces are barely indicated and the bodies overlap until they read as a single movement. The skirts [...]
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Edgar Degas – Hilaire de Gas
from 108,00 €
Hilaire de Gas shows an elderly man with white hair seated in a striped armchair, looking straight out at us; across his lap he holds a dark cane horizontally, and his left hand rests on the arm of the chair. He wears a black coat, a pale waistcoat and light [...]
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Edgar Degas – Portrait of Léon Bonnat
from 108,00 €
Portrait of Léon Bonnat shows a young bearded man to the chest, in three-quarter view, looking slightly down and past us. On his head is a pale top hat with a dark band, its brim casting a shadow on his forehead; his hair and beard are dark, and below his [...]
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Edgar Degas – Mrs Jeantaud in the Mirror
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Mrs Jeantaud in the Mirror puts the same face on one canvas twice. At the right a woman stands in profile, turned to the left: she wears a dark cloak trimmed with fur and a pale hat with white feathers, a white flower at her throat and a drop at [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Cellist Pilet
from 124,00 €
The Cellist Pilet shows a musician in profile, turned to the left, seated at a table with his hands folded; in front of him lie white sheets of music and a bow, and the neck of a cello rises diagonally across the centre. At the right stand two dark upright [...]
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Edgar Degas – Hélène Rouart in her Father’s Study
from 132,00 €
Hélène Rouart in her Father’s Study shows a young woman standing behind her father’s empty chair, both hands resting on its back. Her dress is grey-blue, the collar and cuffs are white lace, and her gaze slips past us to the left. To her left stands a glass case holding [...]
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Edgar Degas – Racehorses at Longchamp
from 124,00 €
Racehorses at Longchamp shows riders spread across the grass beside the racecourse, nearly all of them with their backs to us. Four move off at the right: one in a rose jacket with a red cap, one in white, one in brick red with a pale blue cap, and one [...]
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Edgar Degas – Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey
from 108,00 €
Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey shows a rider lying on his back in the grass, arms spread and eyes closed, in a pink jacket and pale breeches. Above him a large brown horse without a rider stretches right across the scene, legs extended and saddle empty, while at [...]
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Edgar Degas – Joseph-Henri Altès
from 108,00 €
Joseph-Henri Altès shows the head and shoulders of a bearded man, seen in strict profile, turned to the left, against an empty warm brown ground. The man is bald across the front of the crown, his dark hair combed back over the ears, his beard long and dark, and beneath [...]
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Edgar Degas – Gentlemen’s Race. Before the Start
from 124,00 €
Gentlemen's Race. Before the Start shows a group of riders on brown horses moving from left to right across the grass of the course before the race begins. The riders wear coloured silks and caps – red, green, yellow, blue-grey – and behind them stretch a low green hill and [...]
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Edgar Degas – Mademoiselle Dihau at the Piano
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Mademoiselle Dihau at the Piano shows a young woman seated at a piano, turning over her shoulder to look straight out at us. She wears a dark green-black dress and a black hat with green leaves and one orange flower; a pale band runs along the brim, and a small [...]
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Edgar Degas – Race Horses before the Stands
from 108,00 €
Race Horses before the Stands shows the minutes before a race, as the jockeys walk their horses past the stands. In the foreground a chestnut seen from behind carries a rider in an orange cap and orange-and-white silks; to the right a file of four or five more, among them [...]
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Edgar Degas – A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers
from 124,00 €
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers shows an enormous bunch of asters and chrysanthemums in a green earthenware vase, filling the left two thirds of the canvas, and a woman at the right edge who rests her chin on a gloved hand and looks away to the side. [...]
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Edgar Degas – At the Races in the Countryside
from 124,00 €
At the Races in the Countryside shows an open carriage with a family at the edge of the racecourse. On the box sits a man in a pale coat and a black top hat with a long whip, and beside him a black-and-white bulldog. In the carriage sit two women: [...]
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Edgar Degas – Before the Race
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Before the Race shows five riders on horseback, scattered across an empty ochre plain, before the race begins. At the front left sits a rider in a yellow vest and striped sleeves, in the centre two horses overlap, the front one with its head lowered almost to the ground, and [...]
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Edgar Degas – Portraits at the Stock Exchange
from 108,00 €
Portraits at the Stock Exchange shows a corner of the exchange floor where two men are passing a piece of information between them. A bearded man in a top hat and dark coat stands facing us, looking down at a sheet of paper he holds in front of him. From [...]
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Edgar Degas – Orchestra Musicians
from 108,00 €
Orchestra Musicians shows three players from behind, so close that their heads reach the edge of the canvas. The one on the left is seen almost in profile, bearded, a violin below him; the middle one has thick black hair with the brown neck of a stringed instrument rising beside [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Collector of Prints
from 132,00 €
The Collector of Prints shows a bearded man in a black hat and dark coat, seated and leaning forward with a large green portfolio across his knees; his right hand rests on a sheet carrying a small plant drawing, and his gaze goes sideways past us. As a canvas painting [...]
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Edgar Degas – Ballet Rehearsal on Stage
from 124,00 €
Ballet Rehearsal on Stage shows dancers during a rehearsal on an almost empty stage: at the left a cluster of girls in pale skirts crowds together, one tying her shoe, another stretching, in the centre a single dancer stands turned away from us, and at the right a line of [...]
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Edgar Degas – Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste De Gas
from 132,00 €
Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste De Gas shows two men in a dark room: in front sits a younger man with a black moustache playing a pale, honey-coloured guitar, and behind him and slightly to the right an older man with a white moustache listens beside the piano with his hands [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Orchestra at the Opera
from 108,00 €
The Orchestra at the Opera shows the orchestra pit of the Paris Opéra seen close to. At the front sits a bassoonist in black with a white bow tie, turned to the right; at the left is a double-bass player with a marked face, and behind them a row of [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Bellelli Family
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The Bellelli Family shows four people in a drawing room with pale blue floral wallpaper. At the left a woman in a black dress stands with her hand resting on the table; beside her the elder daughter stands in a black dress with a white pinafore and is the only [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Ballet Class
from 139,00 €
The Ballet Class shows a practice room in which the most conspicuous figure is the woman who is not dancing: in the foreground she sits on a plain wooden chair, in a bluish patterned dress and a hat with a yellow band, reading a newspaper. At the back left four [...]
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Edgar Degas – After the Bath (1895)
from 132,00 €
After the Bath (1895) shows a nude woman seen from behind, kneeling and bent forward, reaching down with both arms towards a shallow basin at the left edge; her hair is red, her head is bowed, and orange and red burn across the whole surface. As a canvas painting this [...]
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Edgar Degas – After the Bath (bending figure)
from 108,00 €
After the Bath (bending figure) shows a nude woman drying herself after her bath, bent forward and turned away from the viewer; her hair is red, and the scene is carried by orange and blue woven across the whole surface. As a canvas painting this is a wide, landscape-format scene [...]
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Edgar Degas – Peasant Girls Bathing in the Sea at Dusk
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Peasant Girls Bathing in the Sea at Dusk shows three figures holding hands as they walk into shallow water, all of them turned away from us. The one at the left has dark hair and her head in profile, the middle one wears her hair loose down her back and [...]
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Edgar Degas – Bather Stretched out on Floor
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Bather Stretched out on Floor shows a nude woman lying stretched out on white towels after her bath, her head at the left and one arm bent above it; the face is turned away and almost hidden, the legs reach far to the right, and the ground beneath her is [...]
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Edgar Degas – After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself
from 139,00 €
After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself shows a woman seen almost entirely from behind, bent forward, drying her neck and shoulders with a white towel. Her face is not visible; her raised arm hides her head. At the right stands an armchair with a yellow cushion, a large white sheet [...]
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Edgar Degas – View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme
from 124,00 €
View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme shows the small town at the mouth of the Somme, seen from above across its roofs. The upper third is a pale pink-grey sky. At the left stands a tall dark house wall with a barred window, and behind it a factory chimney rises with its smoke. [...]
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Edgar Degas – Landscape by the Sea
from 108,00 €
Landscape by the Sea is Degas's view across dry, burnt grass towards a line of trees, behind which a narrow band of sea appears in the upper right corner. A pale path winds through the grass, and a handwritten dedication stands in the lower right. As a canvas painting this [...]
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Edgar Degas – Seated Dancer Adjusting Her Shoes
from 108,00 €
Seated Dancer Adjusting Her Shoes shows a single dancer seated and bent low over her right foot to tie the ribbon. The skirt spreads as a pale plane across the left half of the canvas, a blue bow sits at her waist, and the signature stands in the upper right. [...]
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Edgar Degas – Two Dancers
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Two Dancers shows two dancers in green-turquoise skirts standing close together. The one on the left has raised an arm over her head and holds an opened orange fan in the other hand; the one on the right has turned towards her with a hand on her hip. The background [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Dancing Class
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The Dancing Class shows a rehearsal room in which a fiddler sits beside the piano, and in front of him a dancer in pale blue steps forward, a black ribbon at her throat and pink shoes on her feet; others practise at the barre on the right, and on the [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Dance Class
from 188,00 €
The Dance Class shows a practice room at the Paris Opéra during the lesson. Right of centre stands an old ballet master leaning on a long stick, watching a dancer working in front of him. In the foreground a dancer stands with her back to us, a red flower in [...]
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Edgar Degas – Young Spartans Exercising
from 188,00 €
Young Spartans Exercising is an early work by Edgar Degas from around 1860: four girls stand on the left, five nude boys on the right, and between them the plain opens out towards Sparta and Mount Taygetus. As a canvas painting this is a history scene, not the rehearsal room [...]
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Edgar Degas – David and Goliath
from 124,00 €
David and Goliath is an early and deliberately unfinished work by Edgar Degas: a nude youth in the foreground swings a sling above his head, a thin pale cord rises towards the upper right corner, and on the left, in the distance, a second clothed figure leans forward. As a [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Absinthe Drinker
from 132,00 €
The Absinthe Drinker shows a woman and a man seated on the same bench in a Paris café, not looking at each other. A glass of pale green absinthe stands in front of her, he has a pipe and looks out of the scene, and at the lower left a [...]
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Edgar Degas – Dancers in Pink
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Dancers in Pink shows four dancers in pink skirts standing in a row just before going on, hands on their hips and orange-red flowers in their hair; behind them is a painted flat of dense green, and at the left two smaller figures stand on the dark stage. As a [...]
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Edgar Degas – Portrait in a New Orleans Cotton Office
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Portrait in a New Orleans Cotton Office shows a long green-walled office with tall glazed partitions, in which more than a dozen men are at work. In the foreground an elderly gentleman in a black top hat sits testing raw cotton between his fingers. Behind him runs a long table [...]
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Edgar Degas – Calvary, after a painting by Andrea Mantegna
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Calvary, after a painting by Andrea Mantegna is Degas's copy, made in 1861 from a panel that hangs in the Louvre. Three crosses stand on a rocky rise: Christ in the middle, a thief on either side. Lower left the Virgin faints and is caught by the women around her, [...]
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Edgar Degas – Four Dancers
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Edvard Degas - Four Dancers - photograph of hand-drawn reproduction on canvas Four Dancers stand close together in the left half of the canvas, adjusting straps and hair, one of them raising an arm high above her head; behind them is a painted flat of dark green, and to the [...]
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Edgar Degas – Ballet Dancers in the Wings
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Ballet Dancers in the Wings shows four dancers waiting at the side of the stage: one is fixing her hair with both hands, one stands with her hands behind her back, one leans back with her palm to her head, and at lower right one bends forward. The scene takes [...]
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Edgar Degas – The Rape
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The Rape shows a narrow bedroom by the light of a single lamp. At the left a woman sits turned into the corner, in a white shift with one shoulder bare and her head down; her face is not visible. On the round table at the centre stands the lamp, [...]
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“It is a transformation during which imagination collaborates with memory.”

Edgar Degas was born in Paris into an influential French banking family and is considered a master of depicting the human body in motion. He worked mainly in oil on canvas and pastel, often associated with the Impressionists and exhibited alongside them, yet developed a style entirely his own. He died in Paris, leaving behind more than 2,000 oils on canvas and pastels.

Ballet, the main motif from the early 1870s

In the early 1870s ballerinas became his central subject. He liked to sketch live at the ballet stage and finish the work in the studio, which is why these paintings have their characteristic harmony of line and continuity of contour. On this shelf they are led by Dancers at the Barre, Two Dancers, Ballet Dancers in the Wings and The Dance Class.

Italy in 1856, and the classical schooling

In 1856 he travelled to Italy, where he spent three years studying chiefly the Renaissance. After returning to Paris he combined classical and romantic painting styles in his portraits, and gave his early years to large historical scenes – among them Young Spartans Exercising and David and Goliath.

The pulse of everyday life

Besides the ballet he liked to paint racehorses, and later the pulse of everyday life: cafés, laundries, and the moments when nobody is posing. His art was influenced above all by the new science of photography and by Japanese colour prints, which impressed him with their unexpected angles, compositions without a centre, and unpainted space. That way of looking carries The Absinthe Drinker and Seated Dancer Adjusting Her Shoes.

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Every painting on this shelf is a hand-painted oil painting on canvas. Each canvas is painted individually, in the size and frame you choose. The painter works from the original with brush and oils, so the strokes and the layering stay visible – the part a print cannot reproduce.

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Edgar Degas

Ballet, the main motif from the early 1870s

Italy in 1856, and the classical schooling

The pulse of everyday life

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