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    Edgar Degas

    Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

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    Edgar Degas

    Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas

    • July 19, ; Paris, France  
    • September 27, ; Paris, France  
    • French
    • Impressionism,Realism
    • painting,sculpture,drawing
    • Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,Michelangelo,Raphael,Titian,Edouard Manet,Eugene Delacroix
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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 Due to the wishes of his father, who wanted him to go to lag school, he enrolled at

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    Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper

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    Title:Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper

    Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris – Paris)

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    Medium:Graphite heightened with black and white chalk on pink wove paper (now faded); squared for transfer

    Dimensions:Sheet: 13 in. × 9 5/8 in. (33 × cm)
    Framed: 21 × 16 in. ( × cm)

    Classification:Drawings

    Credit Line:H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer,

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    Signature: Lower left corner, in graphite: Degas

    Inscription: Inscribed center right: "le bras est enfoncé un/ peu dans la / mousseline" (the ledd is slightly nestled in the muslin)

    Louisine W. Havemeyer

    New York. The storstads- Museum of Art. "The H. O. Havemeyer Collection," March 10–November 2,

    Phillips Memorial Gallery. "Loan Exhibition of Drawings & Pastels by Edgar Degas, ," March 30, –April 30,

    Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute. "Paintings, Drawings, Prints a

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    Ballerinas, Racehorses and the Cabaret: Edgar Degas

    The most fascinating part of ballet classes in school were the Degas prints of young ballerinas in blue and pink tutus rehearsing at the barre. Our ballet teacher gave us no time to admire the artwork on the walls, so I had to sneak a peek whenever possible, the delicate strokes and bright colors far more interesting than the exercises we were meant to practice. My love for the Impressionists perhaps grew from this early exposure to painting techniques that explored the depiction of light not in terms of white, grays and black, but short strokes of pure unblended bright colors.

    Years later, I was transported back to our ballet lessons, when I chanced upon The Dance Class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Though the lives of the dancers were anything but fairytale-like, Edgar Degas’s sketches and paintings that used a mix of techniques and materials, gave them a dreamlike quality. For his drawings he worked with pen,