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 ...

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 ...

(83.5 x 77.2 cm)) painted by Edgar Degas in 1874, and is one of his most famous ... Degas captures the casual side of the dancers in The Dance Class. Their vibrant presence on stage contrasts sharply ...

In 1879, Edgar Degas made a charcoal and pastel image of two female figures ... Degas is best remembered for his ballet dancers, his actresses and prostitutes, women spied upon, seen in various ...

“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 ...