Catalog of an exhibition held at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, June 24 - September 18, 2016, and at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 16, 2016 - January 8, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Preface / Henri Loyrette -- Degas : a new vision / Henri Loyrette -- The life of Edgar Degas / Dr. Ted Gott -- Edgar Degas : chronology / Dr. Sophie Matthiessan.
Summary:
Edgar Degas is one of the most celebrated artists associated with French Impressionism. The art he made over more than fifty years of constant creativity and renewal embraces painting, drawing, printmaking, monotypes, sculpture and photography, and has had an immense impact on modern and contemporary art. Modern life as he experienced it in nineteenth-century Paris provided Degas with a repertoire of motifs he explored with endless variation and innovation; from scenes of work and industry to ballet and the theatre, racecourses and boudoirs. This sweeping exhibition brings together more than 200 works by Degas from dozens of collections worldwide, offering a fresh and dynamic reappraisal of this legendary artist's genius. Exhibition: National Gallery Victoria, Australia (24.06.-18.09.2016) and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (16.10.2016-08.01.2017).
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