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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
New York City - Sotheby’s November 3, 2008 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York will feature an outstanding group of six works by an artist who is among the most celebrated and loved artists in all art history, Edgar Degas. The collection captures the classic themes of the artist’s oeuvre in a variety of mediums. Chief among them is Danseuse au repos, a pastel and gouache from...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Several paintings by French impressionist painter Edgar Degas will go under the hammer at Sotheby's auction house on November 3, including the 1879 masterpiece "Danseuse" (picture), valued at 40 million dollars.
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Shrine of the Holy Whapping (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
LOS ANGELES —According to museumgoers at Los Angeles' Getty Center, an automated audio guide for the 19th-century Impressionism art gallery obviously despises French painter Edgar Degas. "The narrator wouldn't stop gushing about Monet's work with water or Pissarro's Landscape In The Vicinity Of Louveciennes , but when we got to Degas, she called him a 'master of the female form, if you like staring...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Edgar Degas: 'Young Spartans Exercising', c.1860 National Gallery, London Men may be from Mars and all that. But aside from toilet doors, the main signs of actual sexual segregation in our culture are those old gateways to Victorian schoolyards, where you can read carved in stone: BOYS, GIRLS. It's in childhood the sexes still most firmly separate themselves. It's childhood that Degas took as the setting...
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ALLA PRIMA PAINTING (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
5" x 7" Oil on panel. (Purchase Info) "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." Edgar Degas
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Nature (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Edgar Degas's painting of female athletes challenging male competitors in classical Sparta raises subtle questions about gender, politics and sport, explains Martin Kemp.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
RICHMOND, VA.- French artist Edgar Degas' first ballerina painting, the monumental Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet La Source,' is now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Ballerinas were a subject that was to preoccupy the artist for the remainder of his
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Slideroll, Latest Slideshows (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
RICHMOND, VA - French artist Edgar Degas’ first ballerina painting, the monumental “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet ‘La Source,’” is now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet ‘La Source’” will remain on view at VMFA through Nov. 2.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
SHELBURNE, VT - Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cassatt’s signature monumental mother-and-child works figure prominently in the exhibit. Little known family portraits...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
[Degas] felt a particular horror for the necks and shoulders of women past their prime. From Sue Roe's The Private Lives of Impressionists , a slightly trashy book I'm reading in honor of the SAM show . In the SAM show: Edgar Degas, Visit to a Museum (ca. 1879-90), oil on canvas, 36 1/8 by 26 3/4 inches, picturing Berthe Morisot and her sister at the Louvre
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Hamilton, Ont, Canada - Complementing the Gallery's series of Asian shows, this intimate exhibition explores the influence of Japanese art on two of the great French realists of the 19th century—the Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834–1917) and the “Victorian realist” James Tissot (1836– 1902). Friends from their student days, Degas and Tissot were inspired by the special forms, colours, and motifs of...
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Foto Decadent (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Art : 1/ Seated Woman With Bent Knee, 1917 by Egon Schiele 2/ Man Crazy Nurse #3, 2003 by Richard Prince 3/ Dancers by Edgar Degas 4/ The Cripple, 1997 by John Currin 5 / Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907 by Gustav Klimt 6/ Woman With a Fan, 1919 by Amadeo Modigliani 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6/
