'A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.' Edgar Degas Let's take a closer look at Edgar Degas' ballet dancers. It's a large body of work, containing around 1,500 paintings, sketches, pastels, and sculptures. Degas sums them up nicely in the above quote. I cover: Edgar Degas, Ballet at the Paris Opera,
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Danseuses bleues (1893), oil on canvas, 85 x 75 cm, Musée d'Orsay Dancers in blue
Poster Deze schitterende poster is afbeelding van het originele schilderij 'De balletklas' in heldere kleuren inclusief penseelstreken en achtergrond. La classe de danse (De balletklas) is een schilderij van de Franse impressionistische kunstschilder Edgar Degas, geschilderd in 1873-1876, olieverf op doek, 85,5 × 75 centimeter groot. Het toont de ballerina's van het corps van de Opera van Parijs, wachtend op de beoordeling van hun leraar Jules Perrot. Graaf Isaac de Camondo, een bekend verzamelaar van impressionistische kunst, liet het schilderij in 1911 na aan het Louvre. Sinds 1986 bevindt het zich in het Musée d'Orsay te Parijs. Een variant van het schilderij is te zien in het Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Deze staande poster is gedrukt op hoogwaardig machine coated papier voor een extra mooie kwaliteit. Verzending Wij verkopen ook bijpassende lijsten. Als je een losse poster zonder lijst koopt, wordt deze opgerold en in een speciale stevige poster koker verzonden. Als je ook een lijst bestelt, wordt de poster bij de lijst verzonden. Ophangsystemen Deze poster is eenvoudig op te hangen met ons 'Poster ophangsysteem 50 cm - Teak Houten Posterhanger', eveneens op Bol te verkrijgen.
Edgar Degas, Standing Female Figure with Bared Torso, 1866-68
Prepare to have your hearts broken.
'A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy.' Edgar Degas Let's take a closer look at Edgar Degas' ballet dancers. It's a large body of work, containing around 1,500 paintings, sketches, pastels, and sculptures. Degas sums them up nicely in the above quote. I cover: Edgar Degas, Ballet at the Paris Opera,
Camille Pissarro once described the monotypes made by Edgar Degas in the 1870s as 'a bit slovenly and askew'. Even so, he would also perhaps have known that Degas was held in such high regard by his contemporaries in Paris that other customers would stand as he entered the café he used. Unlike any of the artists featured in the previous exhibition notice, Degas was a great modern master and his monotypes found him pushing the boundaries of modern graphic art about as far as it would go, hence Pissarro's comment. Monotype essentially involves drawing in ink on a metal plate and passing that through a press. As a result only one image is normally possible. Easy enough to do, in the hands of Degas, the result were often astonishing. He has already made very striking etchings like the self-portrait of 1857, above and and utterly magnificent drawings like the one below and I include these because there is clearly a relationship between all the different graphic art he made. The show also includes other graphic work but as I haven't seen it, I can only give readers a hint at what they might see if they are fortunate enough to be in New York this spring and summer. Although he stands very much in the grand tradition of European art, his monotypes sometimes broke with tradition and added colour even if the tone is actually sepia. But that is hardly the point because it is the overall tone that counts. Thanks also to Darrel Karl who has seen the show and has added a very good account of Degas' working methods in the Comments section.
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Photographs of Edgar Degas are little known even among devotees of the artist's paintings. Let's change that!
Edgar Degas, La Coiffure (Combing the Hair), c. 1892-96
