Edgar Degas Art

Edgar Degas Art

Degas, Edgar (July 19, 1834, Paris, France - September 27, 1917, Paris), French painter and sculptor, known especially for his paintings of ballet dancers. Other subjects that he frequently returned to include horse races, women bathing, and portraits of friends and relatives. Degas combined a modern focus on the creation of unusual compositions and the rendering of movement with a traditional emphasis on skillful drawing. An accomplished sculptor as well as painter, he molded, in wax and clay, exquisite small statues of dancers, female bathers, and horses in motion.

Degas is usually classed with the Impressionism, but he stood somewhat apart from the other artists in this group. He did not share the Impressionists' fascination with natural light and its effects, and he disliked painting directly from nature, preferring instead to work in the studio. Moreover, Degas had little interest in landscape - the primary subject matter of the Impressionists - and concentrated instead on the human figure. Also unlike the Impressionists, Degas was interested in drawing and emphasized line in his work.

The art of Degas reflects a concern for the psychology of movement and expression and the harmony of line and continuity of contour.

Edgar Degas favored subjects in movement as though caught by a candid camera. Degas's style of composition was influenced by photography and by Japanese prints. Although his paintings of ballet dancers, musicians, laundresses, and bathing women appear casual and unstudied, the compositions, with their oblique views and asymmetrical balance, were in fact carefully calculated. Degas's portraiture is also unique in its integration of figures with their settings and in its revelation of personality.

Degas experimented a good deal with technique. He tried various printmaking methods, and in his paintings he sometimes used unusual combinations of media, such as pastel or crayon with tempera paint. As he began to lose his sight in the 1880s, Degas increasingly worked in pastels as they were less demanding than oil paint. His pastels are usually simple compositions containing one or two figures. In these works Degas depended on vibrant colors and meaningful gestures rather than on precise lines and careful detailing. He went over outlines again and again in heavy charcoal, and he blended his pinks, purples, and greens to create brilliant color.

Degas was not well known to the public, and his true artistic stature did not become evident until after his death. Before 2005, Degas paintings sold for as much as $16 million.

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Contents

  1. Portrait of Rene De Gas, 1855
  2. Portrait of Rene De Gas 2, 1855
  3. Self Portrait, 1855
  4. Degas in a Green Jacket, 1856
  5. A Roman Beggar Woman, 1857
  6. Achille De Gas in the Uniform of a Cadet, 1857
  7. Portrait of Rene-Hillaire De Gas, 1857
  8. Woman on a Terrace aka Young Woman and Ibis, 1857
  9. Dante and Virgil at the Entrance to Hell, 1858
  10. Self Portrait in a Soft Hat, 1858
  11. Portrait of Giulia Bellelli, 1859
  12. Promenade by the Sea, 1860
  13. Still Life with Lizzard, 1860
  14. Study of Hands, 1860
  15. The Daughter of Jephtha, 1860
  16. The Young Spartans, 1860
  17. Alexander and Bucephalus, 1861
  18. Semiramis Building Babylon, 1861
  19. The Bellelli Family, 1861
  20. Two Riders by a Lake, 1861
  21. At the Races, The Start, 1862
  22. At the Stables, Horse and Dog, 1862
  23. Jockeys at Epsom, 1862
  24. On the Racecourse, 1862
  25. Riders, 1862
  26. The Gentlemen's Race, Before the Start, 1862
  27. Man's Head, 1864
  28. A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers aka Sardela, 1865
  29. Estelle Musson Balfour, 1865
  30. Midieval War Scene, 1865
  31. Self Portrait with Evariste de Valernes, 1865
  32. Edmondo and Therese Morbilli, 1866
  33. Giovanna and Giulia Bellelli, 1866
  34. Portrait of a Man, 1866
  35. Scene from the Steeplechase, The Fallen Jockey, 1866
  36. Self Portrait Saluting, 1866
  37. The Collector of Prints, 1866
  38. Victoria Duborg, 1866
  39. Edmond and Therese Morbilli, 1867
  40. Head of a Young Woman, 1867
  41. Interior aka The Rape, 1868
  42. Jockey, 1868
  43. Josephine Gaujean, 1868
  44. Mademoiselle Marie Dihau, 1868
  45. Mlle Fiocre in the Ballet 'La Source', 1868
  46. Portrait of James Tissot, 1868
  47. Racehorses before the Stands, 1868
  48. The Promenade on Houseback, 1868
  49. Two Jockeys, 1868
  50. Emma Dobigny, 1869
  51. M. and Mme Edouard Manet, 1869
  52. Portrait of Madame Edmondo Morbilli, nee Therese De Gas, 1869
  53. Seascape, 1869
  54. Sulking, 1869
  55. Hortense Valpinion, 1870
  56. Lepic, 1870
  57. The False Start, 1870
  58. The Orchestra of the Opera, 1870
  59. Dance Class, 1871
  60. Horses in a Meadow, 1871
  61. Jeantaud, Linet and Laine, 1871
  62. Racehorses at Longchamp, 1871
  63. Woman at the Window, 1871
  64. A Carriage at the Races, 1872
  65. Before the Race, 1872
  66. Class at Peletye, 1872
  67. Musicians in the Orchestr, 1872
  68. Out of the Paddock, 1872
  69. Woman Ironing, 1872
  70. Woman Seated on a Balcony, 1872
  71. Cotton Merchants in New Orleans, 1873
  72. Race Horses, 1873
  73. The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans, 1873
  74. The Nurse, 1873
  75. Three dancers, 1873
  76. Woman with a Bandage, 1873
  77. Eugene Manet, 1874
  78. The Ballet Rehearsal on Stage, 1874
  79. The Dance Class, 1874
  80. The Rehearsal, 1874
  81. The Rehearsal on Stage, 1874
  82. Two Dancers on Stage, 1874
  83. Ballet Rehearsal, 1875
  84. Henri Rouart in front of His Factory, 1875
  85. Peasant Girls Bathing in the Sea at Dusk, 1875
  86. Beach Scene, 1876
  87. Henri De Gas and His Neice, Lucie Degas, 1876
  88. The Absinthe Drinker, 1876
  89. The Duchess di Montajesi with Her Daughters, Elena and Camille, 1876
  90. Ballet at the Paris Opers, 1877
  91. Cafe Concert, At Les Ambassadeurs, 1877
  92. Dancers Practicing at the Barre, 1877
  93. Mademoiselle Malo, 1877
  94. The Cafe Concert, 1877
  95. The Song of the Dog, 1877
  96. Woman Leaving Her Bath, 1877
  97. Dancers, 1878
  98. Singer with a Glove, 1878
  99. The Dance Class, 1878
  100. The Star aka Dancer on Stage, 1878
  101. Two Dancers Entering the Stage, 1878
  102. Dancer Leaving Her Dressing Room, 1879
  103. Diego Martelli, 1879
  104. Edmond Duranty, 1879
  105. Portrait of Henri Michel-Levy, 1879
  106. Portraits, at the Stock Exchange, 1879
  107. The Dance Lesson, 1879
  108. Three Ballet Dancers, 1879
  109. Two Ballet Dancers, 1879
  110. Dancer Resting, 1880
  111. Lowering the Curtain, 1880
  112. On the Stage, 1880
  113. The Box at the Opera, 1880
  114. The Green Dancer, 1880
  115. At the Ballet, 1881
  116. Ballet Class, The, 1881
  117. On Stage, 1881
  118. At the Milliner's 2, 1882
  119. Before the Race, 1882
  120. Jockeys, 1882
  121. The Entrance of the Masked Dancers, 1882
  122. Waiting, 1882
  123. Arlekin and Kolombina, 1884
  124. Laundry Girls Ironing 2, 1884
  125. Portrait of Mary Cassatt, 1884
  126. Woman Trying on a Hat, 1884
  127. A Visit to the Museum, 1885
  128. After the Bath, 1885
  129. At the Cafe des Ambassadeurs, 1885
  130. At the Cafe des Ambassadeurs 2, 1885
  131. Ballerina and Lady with a Fan, 1885
  132. Mirror, 1885
  133. Nude Woman Pulling on Her Clothes, 1885
  134. The Millinery Shop, 1885
  135. Three Dancers behind the Scenes, 1885
  136. The Tub, 1886
  137. Woman Ironing, 1887
  138. Woman Leaving Her Bath, 1888
  139. Dancers, 1890
  140. Horses and Jockeys, 1890
  141. Woman Combing Her Hair, 1890
  142. Women Leaning on a Railing, 1890
  143. Interior at Menil-Hubert, 1892
  144. Rose Caron, 1892
  145. Ballet Scene, 1893
  146. Olive Trees against a Mountainous Background, 1893
  147. Rest, 1893
  148. Wheatfield and Line of Trees, 1893
  149. Woman Combing Her Hair 2, 1894
  150. Dance Rehearsal in the Studio of the Opera, 1895
  151. Dancer with Bouquets, 1895
  152. Dancers in Blue, 1895
  153. Dancers, Pink and Green, 1895
  154. Pagan and Degas' Father, 1895
  155. Dancer and Tambourine, 1897
  156. Woman Drying Herself, 1897
  157. Henri Rouart and His Son Alexis, 1898
  158. Houses at the Foot of a Cliff aka Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, 1898
  159. Two Dancers, 1898
  160. Four Dancers, 1899
  161. Seated Bather Drying Herself, 1899
  162. Woman at Her Toilette, 1899
  163. Combing the Hair, 1900
  164. Dancers, 1900
  165. After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, 1904
  166. After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, 1905
  167. Dancers at the Barre, 1905
  168. Madame Alexis Rouart and Her Children, 1905
  169. Women Combing Their Hair, 1907
  170. At the Milliner's, 1910

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