Degas pastel drawings dancers
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Dancer
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Title:Dancer
Artist:Edgar Degas (French, Paris – Paris)
Date:ca.
Medium:Pastel and charcoal on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions:Sheet: 19 1/4 × 12 1/2 in. ( × cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, , Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg,
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Signature: in charcoal, lower right: Degas
Possibly prev. owned by, Galerie Durand-Ruel,Paris ; P. Paulin (French), Paris (possibly by ; until ); Antonio Santamarina (Argentinian), Buenos Aires (by ); his sale, Sotheby's, London4/2/74,no,£, to s 4 Annenberg; Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg (American),joint wt MMA d; his bequest to MMA)
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 21–September 17,
Washington. National Gallery of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," May 6–August 5,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection," August 16–November 11,
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The
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Edgar Degas
Stamped at lower left corner, Degas
10 15/16 x 8 11/16 inches ( x 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 canvas Dance Class at the Opéra on the Rue le Peletier (Musée d'Orsay, Paris). Typical of Degas' dynamic working method, the figure does not exactly correspond to the final painting, in which her face is seen in full profile and her torso is turned toward the left.
Edgar Degas
Stamped at lower left corner, in red, Degas
12 3/4 x 8 1/16 inches ( x mm)
This richly worked study was produced in , when Degas chose to revisit an earlier composition (see the sheet Four Jockeys) for a new painting depicting jockeys gathering by the starting pole. He delineated the horse's form, smearing the charcoal to model the thoroughbred's muscular body. Degas' interest in horses and racetrack scenes is evident throughout his career. In fact, for his earliest forays into sculpture in the s, he chose the horse as his subject, a decade before étienne-Jules Marey's or Eadweard Muybridge's famed photographs of horses in motion.
Edgar Degas
Four Jockeys on Horseback,
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