An installation view of the Degas exhibit at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls. Edgar Degas' photograph of Christine Lerolle, 1895-96. Gelatin silver print. An installation view of the Degas ...

Degas produced a suite of monotype prints for the stories, portraying the abonnés as dark, top-hatted figures. (Similar figures would appear in some of his other compositions as well.) ...

La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years), c. 1880, bronze, wax, silk, muslin, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photograph by Miguel Hermoso Cuesta. As ...

Degas’s paintings date to 1873 and were done on a visit to New Orleans, where his mother was born and his family ran a lucrative business in the slavery-dependent cotton industry.

Misty Copeland Re-creates Iconic Degas Paintings. Misty Copeland is more than one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world, now she’s quite literally a work of art. William Boot.

Degas’s “Portrait of the Artist,” made in 1855 when he was 20 or 21, is essentially a student work, though one of extraordinary precocity, its pose a near-exact imitation of an 1804 self ...

Edgar Degas’s early masterpiece evoked a scene that was ahead of its time and beyond mere words Like many artists, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) had a competitive relationship with literature. He ...

With Degas, I know I’m not alone: the austerity of his paintings borders on nastiness. (That they’ve decorated so many little girls’ bedrooms is one of art history’s tartest ironies.) ...

MoMA show of Edgar Degas prints illustrates his love for experimenting Impressionist found his ‘perfect medium’ in the monotype, a drawing that’s printed, using them to document social ...

Degas’s paintings of ballerinas often reference a darker side of the dance industry in the late 19th century, when ballet’s popularity was beginning to fade and many dancers from lower-class ...