Edgar degas figure drawings
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Edgar Degas
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
Self Portrait Saluting - Edgar DegasEdgar Degas
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
- July 19, 1834; Paris, France
- September 27, 1917; Paris, France
- French
- Impressionism,Realism
- painting,sculpture,drawing
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,Michelangelo,Raphael,Titian,Edouard Manet,Eugene Delacroix
- Edward Hopper,Henri Gervex,Paul Gauguin,Mary Cassatt,Walter Sickert,Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Aaron Shikler,Richard Diebenkorn
- École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
- Edouard Manet,Mary Cassatt,Telemaco Signorini,Giovanni Boldini
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Degas
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One of the founders of the Impressionist movement, Edgar Degas was a prominent artist in the last half of the 19th century. Born to wealthy family, he began his schooling with a baccalaureate in literature in 1853. Due to the wishes of his father, who wanted him to go to law school, he enrolled at the University of Paris in 1853 to pursue a law degree, where he made little effort. Degas, who at age 18 had transformed one of the rooms is his house into a studio, and was a registered copyist at the Louvre by 1853, left law school after two year
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Edgar Degas
Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, 1877/85
Signed and dated at lower right, in pastel, Degas / 85.
9 1/16 x 7 7/8 inches (230 x 200 mm)
This vivid scene of a performance by the famed chanteuse Emilie Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs captures the spectacle and excitement of the outdoor café-concert in fin-de-siècle Paris. Degas was a frequent visitor to this popular and coarse form of entertainment for a brief period during the late 1870s and used it as inspiration for compositions, such as this 1877 lithograph that he reworked in pastel nearly a decade later. The three silhouetted female spectators in the immediate foreground—added entirely in pastel to the underlying print—contrast with the spotlighted singer, who is performing her frenzied, comic dance, with arms raised and fingers splayed, in her trademark style épileptique.
Edgar Degas
Stamped at lower left corner, Degas
10 15/16 x 8 11/16 inches (279 x 222 mm)
Using dark washes of thinned oil paint to throw the figure into relief, Degas expertly retained the paper's tone to highlight the dancer's back. This sheet is one of five surviving studies related to the artist's 1872 canvas Dance Class at the Opéra on the Rue le Peletier (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Ty
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