Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels

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Edgar Degas (1834 –1917) used to be one of the vital outstanding draftsmen of the nineteenth century, and drawing used to be not just a central tenet of his art but also crucial to his existence. Through an examination of his drawings and pastels, this book reveals the development of Degas’s style as well the story of his life, including his complicated relationship with the Impressionists.
 
Following a broadly chronological approach, the writer discusses the artist’s quite a lot of subject areas, from the images of dancers―which form over half of Degas’s total oeuvre―to nudes, laundresses, milliners, and the less well-known racehorse and landscape drawings. He covers the entire career, from when Degas used to be copying the Old Masters to be informed his craft to when he ceased work in 1912 as a result of failing eyesight, and sets him inside the artistic context of the period. Extensive research, including a careful study of the artist’s detailed notebooks, has resulted in a comprehensive exposition with, at its heart, over 200 pencil, black-chalk, pen-and-ink, and charcoal drawings and pastels of timeless appeal.

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