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Works on Paper by Degas, Renoir, and Friends

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Вікіпедія про художника

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Едґар Деґа - Вікіпедія

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Деґа народився в сім'ї, що походила з аристократичного роду. Батько - паризький банкір П'єр Огюст де Ґа, мати - Селестан Мюссон. Пізніше Едґар спростив своє прізвище на громадянське - Деґа.

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In the 1870s Edgar Degas became fascinated with ballet dancers, paying frequent visits to the classes where the Opèra's ballet master trained groups of young girls, the so-called petits rats . Here seven young dancers fill the page with their pliés , lunges, and kicks. Often Degas did not even bother to sketch their heads, focusing instead on their bodies' contortions and their outstretched arms and legs. A flurry of lines captures their fluttering skirts and short, pulled-back hair. The writer Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his journal in 1873: Yesterday I spent the afternoon in the studio of a painter named Degas. After many attempts, many bearings being taken in every direction, he has fallen in love with the modern and, in the modern, he has cast his choice upon laundresses and dancers. . . . And right before us , seized upon the spot, is the graceful twisting of movements and gestures of the little monkey-girls. . . . He is the man I have seen up to now who has best captured, in reproducing modern life, the soul of this life.

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Ballet Dancers Rehearsing - Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917) - Google Arts & Culture

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In the 1870s Edgar Degas became fascinated with ballet dancers, paying frequent visits to the classes where the Opèra's ballet master trained groups of young girls, the so-called petits rats . Here seven young dancers fill the page with their pliés , lunges, and kicks.

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After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Back - Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917) - Google Arts & Culture

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The title of this photograph is more poetic than indicative of an actual scene. The blackened bottom of the model's foot suggests that the photograph was r...

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Interior - Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917 - Google Arts & Culture

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Portrait of Henry Lerolle with two of his daughters, Yvonne and Christine and a mirror - Edgar Degas - Google Arts & Culture

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The modernity of Degas's painted and sculpted work can also be found in his photographs as, from 1895 onwards, he started practising this technique for a b...

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Dancers - Edgar Degas - Google Arts & Culture

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Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas - Edgar Degas - Google Arts & Culture

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Lorenzo Pagans (1838-1883) was a spanish tenor and Auguste De Gas (1807-1874) was the father of the artist.

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In 1855, the twenty-year-old Degas visited the acclaimed Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who was seventy-four at the time, to report that a family friend had agreed to lend a painting of a nude by Ingres to an exhibition. At this meeting the elder artist encouraged his young admirer to draw constantly, from memory as well as from direct observation. Taking the advice to heart, Degas throughout his career championed drawings on a par with paintings.

Although Degas seldom dated or exhibited works after the last Impressionist group show of 1886, this drawing of a nude's back is among many closely related works generally dated to the mid-1890s, when the artist's longtime colleagues, including Renoir, Cézanne, and Monet, were all producing variations on single pictorial themes. Degas's procedure was to make a drawing of the model in charcoal, then to lay a sheet of tracing paper over this in order to make duplicates. In the case of some images, such as After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair, he repeated the process many times, creating a sequence of sheets with identical-size figures on them, the sheets themselves varying in size, format, and setting details.

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Title: After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair

Date Created: c. 1895

Physical Dimensions: 24 7/16 x 27 5/16 in. (62 x 69.3 cm)

Provenance: (Degas sale I, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, no. 327); purchased by Dr. Georges Viau [1855-1939]; (Viau sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 May 1930, no. 11); purchased by Paul Rosenberg [1881-1959]; by descent to Alexandre Rosenberg [-1987]; by descent to Alexandre Rosenberg's widow, Elaine, and her sister; (Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York); purchased by Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, 1995.

Rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

External Link: www.kimbellart.org

Medium: Charcoal on yellow tracing paper

Century: 19th century

Artist Nationality: French

Artist Dates: (1834-1917)

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