Degas' Drawings

Degas' Drawings
Author: H. G. E. Degas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2012-07-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486139360

Carefully reproduced from a rare 1923 limited edition, most of these magnificent drawings are unavailable elsewhere in published form. Dancers, nudes, portraits, travel scenes, and more. 100 drawings, including 8 in full color.

Degas Drawings of Dancers

Degas Drawings of Dancers
Author: Edgar Degas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486141667

Forty-one full-page, six half-page drawings depict dancers on stage, in the classroom, and at rehearsals. Charming, spirited views of dancers pirouetting, executing grand battements and ports de bras, practicing at the barre, and more.

Degas, Painter of Ballerinas

Degas, Painter of Ballerinas
Author: Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2019-04-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1683354737

Through Edgar Degas’s beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer’s journey from novice to prima ballerina. Observing young students, Degas drew their poses again and again, determined to achieve perfection. The book includes a brief biography of his entire life, endnotes, bibliography, where to see his paintings, and an index.

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas
Author: Christopher Lloyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781606063279

"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Thames & Hudson Ltd."--Title page verso.

Edgar Degas: Drawings in Close Up

Edgar Degas: Drawings in Close Up
Author: Annabelle Thornhill
Publisher: Osmora Incorporated
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 2765907552

Like the Impressionists, Degas sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plain air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafes illuminated by artificial light, which he used to clarify the contours of his figures, adhering to his Academic training. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He also was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterful in depicting movement, as can be seen in his interpretations of dancers and female nudes. His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and for their portrayal of human isolation.

A Degas Sketchbook

A Degas Sketchbook
Author: Carol M. Armstrong
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Reproduces all of the significant pages from Degas's 1877 sketchbook, placing Degas both within the context of the cultivated salon of the Halévy family and the larger world of late 19th-century Paris.

Dover Masterworks: Color Your Own Degas Paintings

Dover Masterworks: Color Your Own Degas Paintings
Author: Marty Noble
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2014-03-19
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486779416

Thirty works by a renowned 19th-century French Impressionist — among them A Woman with Chrysanthemums, Dancer Resting, The Bellelli Family, The Procession (At the Race Course), The Millinery Shop, and Women Combing Their Hair.

The Painted Girls

The Painted Girls
Author: Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101603798

A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.

Degas and the Nude

Degas and the Nude
Author: George T. M. Shackelford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Nude in art
ISBN: 9780500093627

The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas and the Nude is the first book in a generation to explore the artist's treatment of the nude from his early years in the 1850s and 1860s, through his triumphs in the 1880s and 1890s, all the way to his last decades, when the theme dominated his artistic production in all media. With essays by leading critics, the book aims to provide a new interpretation of Degas's evolving conception of the nude and to situate it in the subject's broader context among his peers in 19th-century France. Among the scores of reproductions is one of the most important of Degas's early paintings, Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which exerted a lifelong influence on the artist's treatment of the female nude and includes poses poses repeated throughout his career. Also included are monotypes of the late 1870s, which illustrate Degas's most explicitly sexual depictions of women in Parisian brothels, and pictures portraying the daily life of women wherever they resided. Together these iterations range over more than a half-century of virtuoso achievement and manifest a groundbreaking look at the evolution of this master artist.