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French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
Edgar Degas
Self-portrait (Degas Saluant), 1863
Born
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
(1834-07-19)19 July 1834
Paris, Kingdom of France
Died
27 September 1917(1917-09-27) (aged 83)
Paris, France
Known for
Painting, sculpture, drawing
Notable work
The Bellelli Family (1858–1867)
The Ballet Class (1871–1874)
The Absinthe (1875–1876)
The Tub (1886)
Movement
Impressionism
Signature
Edgar Degas (UK: /ˈdeɪɡɑː/, US: /deɪˈɡɑː,dəˈɡɑː/;[1][2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French:[ilɛːʁʒɛʁmɛ̃ɛdɡaʁdəɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.[3] Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist,[4] and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.
Degas was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers and bathing female nudes. In addition to ballet dancers and bathing women, Degas painted racehorses and racing jockeys, as well as portraits. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and their portrayal of human isolation.[5]
At the beginning of his career, Degas wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classical Western art. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.[6]
^Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William A. Jr. (2017). The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 330. ISBN 978-1-138-12566-7.; Bollard, John K. (1998). Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names (2nd ed.). Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, Inc. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-7808-0098-4.
^Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
^Trachtman, Paul, Degas and His Dancers, Smithsonian Magazine, April 2003
for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject...
Pissarro and Cézanne against opposition from Monet and Degas, who thought him unworthy. Degas invited Mary Cassatt to display her work in the 1879 exhibition...
Dumas (ed.), The Private Collection of EdgarDegas, Volume 1, p. 57, at Google Books. At n. 252, the text says Degas said he purchased it later at Vollard's...
The Private Collection of EdgarDegas, fully digitized text from The Metropolitan Museum of Art libraries; contains essay "Degas, Japanese Prints, and Japonisme"...
Side), and lived much of her adult life in France, where she befriended EdgarDegas and exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of...
oil painting by EdgarDegas. Degas depicts the interior of his maternal uncle Michel Musson's cotton firm in New Orleans. Musson, Degas's brothers René...
Ballet Espagnol. EdgarDegas is believed to be the intellectual extension of Manet, but more radical for the impressionist community. Degas' subjects are...
Exchange (also known as At the Bourse) is a painting by the French artist EdgarDegas. Completed in about 1879, the painting was already in the collection...
truth behind Degas' ballet dancers". CNN. Retrieved 2021-01-06. Kendall, Richard. Degas and the Little Dancer, Yale UP, 1998. 25-44 "Degas's Little Dancer...
oil painting on canvas by EdgarDegas (1834–1917), painted c. 1858–1867, and housed in the Musée d'Orsay. A masterwork of Degas' youth, the painting is...
Montmartre, including Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, EdgarDegas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso...
Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas is the title of a painting by EdgarDegas. Painted in oil on canvas, it is 54.5 cm high and 39.5 cm wide. The double...
Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Berthe Morisot, Pissarro, Béliard, Guillaumin, Lepic, Levert, and Rourt. For the name of the group, Renoir and Degas wanted neutral...
The Tub (1886) is a pastel artwork by Impressionist artist, EdgarDegas (1834–1917). It is currently housed in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Moving away...
"Maurice-Quentin de La Tour", Oxford Art Online Werner, A., & Degas, E. (1977). Degas pastels. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 15. ISBN 082301276X...
(born April 21, 1858) was an expert aerialist who served as muse to EdgarDegas and was depicted in his 1879 painting Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando...
and lifestyle, including Oscar Wilde, James Abbott Whistler, and EdgarDegas. Degas shared many of his cultural interests as Tissot's mentee, notably...
of the novels and of Degas' monotypes have similarities, there is a difference between the treatment of the subject; while Degas' prostitutes are "earthy...