A major exhibition and a new ballet bring the renowned artist’s obsession with dance center stage ... Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874.

WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar ... Degas’ studio described the artist putting a pastel drawing on his studio floor and stomping on it to make the powder-like ...

Yet the popular image of this deeply traditional medium has been largely defined by the talents of one thoroughly modern artist: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar ... Degas’ most famous depictions of a ...

which showcase more than 30 works by Edgar Degas. The last gallery even includes two mirrors and a real ballet barre, mounted at hip height along one mirror. When a dancer from the Washington ...

His small oil painting depicting a ballet dancer on stage has always been thought to be a work by Edgar Hilaire Degas. Unfortunately ... amidst the chaos of World War Two? Or will the scholars ...

“Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874. “Out of all the subjects in modern ...

This exhilarating exhibition celebrates Edgar Degas ... off the stage. The lowly state of the ballet enabled Degas to capture the reality, in contrast to the artifice, of a dancer’s working ...

What do you picture when you think of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and the ballet? His frequently reproduced chocolate-boxy, saccharine-sweet, pretty little ballerinas in billowing pastel-colored tutus?