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2. mymodernmet.com › edgar-degas-dancersDegas' Dancers: How the Painter Depicted Ballerinas in His Art

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   May 20, 2018 · Edgar Degas, however, was fascinated by movement and people—making ballerinas a perfect subject. Each ballerina painting, drawing, and sculpture by Degas showcases this interest. Throughout his career, he produced approximately 1,500 depictions of dancers.

3. www.themorgan.org › degas-drawings-and-sketchbooksDegas: Drawings and Sketchbooks | The Morgan Library & Museum

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   In fact, this sheet is from a sketchbook Degas used in Paris and Normandy between 1869 and 1872 that contained two other drawings for the same painting. These studies reveal his complex working method and document the continued evolution of the composition.

4. www.cnn.com › style › articleThe sordid truth behind Degas’ ballet dancers | CNN

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   Jan 6, 2021 · Degas made around 1,500 paintings, monotypes and drawings of ballet dancers, but they have a troubled history. Edgar Degas. Although it enjoyed unprecedented popularity in Degas’ era, the...

5. www.smithsonianmag.com › arts-culture › degas-andDegas and His Dancers | Smithsonian

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   Now Degas’s pencil and chalk drawings, monotype prints and pastels, oil paintings and sculptures of ballerinas have been gathered from museums and private collections around the world for an...

6. www.nga.gov › modeling-movement › degas-dancersDegas Dancers - National Gallery of Art

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   Most of Degas’s dancers are anonymous, unlike those to which they are often compared, Auguste Barre’s fastidious portrait-statuettes of famous dancers in famous roles. Even Degas’s most energetic figures are remote from the later picturesque figurines of generic ballerinas.

7. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionEdgar Degas | Two Dancers | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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   Two Dancers. Marie van Goethem, who posed for Degas's sculpture The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, was the model for these two fine studies of a dancer adjusting her shoulder strap. Degas often used commercially coated paper for his drawings of dancers; this sheet retains its original color.

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   How many dancers did Degas paint?

   • Degas, Four Dancers, c. 1899, oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.122 Degas represented dancers in almost all mediums. His first known paintings, pastels, and drawings of dancers closely followed his two-dimensional works of horses in the 1860s.

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   How many Degas paintings did a six-year-old ballet dancer make?

   • At first glance, Degas has rendered the sort of pretty, innocent world one might associate with a six-year-old’s first recital. These works actually speak to an insidious culture that would be shocking to contemporary audiences. Degas made around 1,500 paintings, monotypes and drawings of ballet dancers, but they have a troubled history.

   The sordid truth behind Degas’ ballet dancers | CNN

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   Why did Edgar Degas paint ballerinas?

   • When Impressionism emerged in the 1870s, most painters were preoccupied with light and nature. Edgar Degas, however, was fascinated by movement and people—making ballerinas a perfect subject. Each ballerina painting, drawing, and sculpture by Degas showcases this interest.

   Degas' Dancers: How the Painter Depicted Ballerinas in His Art

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   How did Degas depict a dancer?

   • One of Degas’ most famous depictions of a dancer comes not in the form of a painting, but a wax sculpture – a tactile medium that suited the 40-something artist as his eyesight began to fade.

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   Media in category "Drawings of ballet by Edgar Degas" The following 50 files are in this category, out of 50 total. 'Dancer' by Edgar Degas, charcoal, Norton Simon Museum.JPG 1,546 × 2,277; 511 KB