Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Nationality: French
Movement: Impressionism
Media: Painting, Sculpture
Influences:

Biography:
As a lifelong student of Italian Renaissance and sixteenth century painters, Edgar Degas developed a passionate interest for accuracy in his forms. He met Manet in 1861, who introduced him to the impressionism and allowed him to participate in most of their exhibitions. Despite the tendency of the Impressionists to favor landscapes, Degas is most recognized by his painting of female dancers. When his sight began to fail in 1875, Degas began to experiment with pastels, capturing momentary images with a departure from classical poses. Degas is also known for his sculptures, which he created out of wax and clay originally, but were cast in bronze after his death.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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High Museum: Degas & America: The Early Collectors
Because American collectors embraced Degas' work in all media - oils, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture - and from all periods of his career, the exhibition offers a first-rate survey of his work. His early academic drawings, his engag...
: Degas Fetches Record Price
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: The Time of Degas
The display revolves around Edgar Degas, the odd-man-out of the Impressionist movement. The breadth of his taste is demonstrated by his appreciation both of the Classicism of Ingres and of the free handling of paint and use of colour in Delacroix'...
Musee du Quebec: Degas & Pissarro, Alchemy of an Encounter
Degas & Pissarro, Alchemy of an Encounter constitutes a unique opportunity for discovering another facet of the talent of these two great artists who, of all Impressionists, were th...
Art Gallery of Ontario: Degas Sculptures
Degas created sculpture throughout most of his career and was immortalized as "the greatest living sculptor" by painter Auguste Renoir, despite having exhibited only one sculpture during his lifetime - Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. This wax figure...
Fundacao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva: Bonnard, Degas, Vuillard: Photographs
Consciously or unconsciously, the setting of the image expresses the particular sensitivity of the photographer. That of Bonnard reveals purity in sensuality which never ceases to move us. That of Degas, a more sophisticated gaze, pursues the perm...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Portland Museum of Art: Degas, Rodin, and Moore: Bronzes by European Masters
The exhibition offers a varied sampling of bronze sculpture, mostly small scale and predominantly French and German, that chronicles nearly a century of activity. The earliest bronzes to be included date to the 1880s, such as Degas’s Fourth Posit...
Columbia Museum of Art: A Body of Work: The Human Figure from Degas to Diebenkorn
“The human figure has been a significant genre throughout the history of art. To examine the human figure and the techniques and styles in its depiction throughout the 20th century is the motivation behind organizing A Body of Work: The Human Figu...
Phoenix Art Museum: All 73 sculptures by Edgar Degas
Featured among Degas’s celebrated dancers, bathers and horses in Degas in Bronze is the famed Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. This single sculpture, worked on by Degas for two years, may be the most historically important sculpture in French art of...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Impressionist Masterworks from the National Gallery of Canada
The first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 exploded like a bombshell in the complacent world of French academic art. The young artists who participated in this show and the seven exhibitions that followed, had abandoned historical subje...
San Diego Museum of Art: Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures
The collection of 73 sculptures in the show is one of only four complete sets of Degas bronzes, which were cast shortly after the artist’s death, in existence. They come from the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil, and their presentation is organi...
Detroit Institute of Art: A Century of Collecting 1900-2000: Drawings from the DIA Collection
Artists from the past through the present are featured including Michelangelo, Cezanne, and Degas as well as Charles Demuth, Diego Rivera, and Ed Ruscha....
Musee d'Orsay: Daumier
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National Gallery of Art: Mellon gives gift to National Gallery
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Thomas Dane: Translations - Creative Copying and Originality
The idea that artists create autonomously is a great myth. The exhibition shows how artists have always been attracted by the works of their predecessors and contemporaries and how they have explored the creative potential of copying for their own...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Bristol Museums and Art Gallery: Family Fortunes: Paintings on tour from the National Gallery, London
Also on display is work on the theme of the family today by Bristol school children and young people. ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures
A longtime supporter of the arts in New York, Janice Levin was an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1993 until her death in 2001. A number of significant works from the collection have been bequeathed to American museums, inc...
Cleveland Museum of Art: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
They include works by such well-known masters as François Boucher, Théodore Géricault, Jean-François Millet, and Edgar Degas. Many of these drawings are unknown to both the public and scholars, so this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue hig...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Curated by Diane De Grazia with Carter Foster, the exhibition will travel to the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. National City is the international sponsor of Master Drawings from the Cle...
Musee d'Orsay: Theo van Gogh : art-dealer, collector, Vincent's brother
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National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints
In the 19th century, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro continued to experiment with intaglio techniques but also used the new medium of lithography. Lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec, Vuillard, and Bonnard from the 1890s — the great era of color lith...
Frick Collection: Six Paintings from the Former Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney on Loan from the Greentree Foundation
The selection reflects the Whitneys’ interest in art produced in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which formed the core of their renowned collection. The six paintings, displayed in the Garden Court, are accompan...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Five New Painting Galleries to Open
The V&A has remarkable collections of eighteenth and nineteenth century British landscape paintings and watercolours (the national collection of watercolours is held at the V&A). Three galleries will focus on the image of landscape in Britain as...
Denver Art Museum: Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums
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Somerset House: New displays: Into the 20th Century
New loans will include a group of over 30 Fauve paintings, including work by Matisse, Derain, Dufy and Vlaminck, as well as a selection of paintings and drawings by Kandinsky. The sculpture will include by Degas, Rodin, Maillol, Matisse, Laurens, ...
Frick Art and Historical Center: Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890s
Late 19th-century Parisian painters experimented freely with new developments in printmaking and worked closely with skillful printmakers and publishers to produce some of the ...
National Gallery of Art: MASTERWORKS HONORS PAUL MELLON'S LEGACY OF GIFTS TO THE NATION; INCLUDES 14 RARE DEGAS WAXES
This exhibition honors Paul Mellon, whose generosity and service to the nation are unsurpassed, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. The full breadth of Mr. Mellons gifts ...
Phillips Collection: Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts September 23 through January 21, 2001 FUTURE . . . Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective Fe
By integrating works from The Phillips Collection into the Tannahill exhibition, Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from The Detroit Institute of Arts highlights the similarities and the differ...
Seattle Art Museum: Impressionism Paintings Collected by European Museums
Impressionism will provide an overview of the revolutionary 19th-century art movement, while also offering new insights into Impressionism’s early ...
Louvre Musuem: Possess and Destroy. Sexual Strategies in Western Art
And yet, for a long time we have stopped seeing these images as what they are: an inexhaustible and cruel metaphor of what we call with a ...
L.A. County Museum of Art: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art

A major part of LACMA's mission is to bring great art to our region, said Graham W. J. Beal, the museum's director. We are delighted to share a special selection of the National Gallery’s renowned French paintings with the people of Los Angeles....
Baltimore Museum of Art: Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections
Presenting 56 signature paintings by Monet, Renoir, Manet, Cassatt, Degas, Cézanne, and many other luminaries of 19th-century French art, Faces of ...
Frye Art Museum: Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg
The monotype process involves drawing or painting on a flat surface and then transferring the image by means of pressure onto a sheet of paper. Only one strong impression can be taken. Weisberg uses oil paint and printing ink, applying the med...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Visions, Fragments, and Impressions: French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Bronzes from the Collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond
Beginning with the period of the Revolution (1789) and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, many French artists and sculptors were in the vanguard of political and social change. The public and the press, as well as artists and critics...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Digital: Revolutions in Printmaking
The exhibition will include new works by many established artists, among them John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, and James Turrell. The rel...
Louvre Museum: From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art
Exhibition curators : Arlette Sérullaz, curator at the Department of Graphic Arts, at the Louvre, assigned to the Musée Delacroix Dalila Orfali, director of the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts The restoration of the works was supervised by Nathali...

Further Artwork and Information:

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Edgar Degas - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW
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Edgar Degas - Olgas Gallery
Degas Gallery - OCAIW: Orazio Centaros Art Images on the Web
Gardens of the Sunlight - Edgar Degas
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