In these uncertain times, the National Gallery of Art’s in-person exhibit “Degas at the Opéra” offers a comforting return to a well-known artist while simultaneously examining the influences and ...

Edgar Degas is perhaps most famous for his brightly colored paintings of ballerinas in 19 th century Paris – but you won’t find any of those works in the exhibition at the Frick Art & Historical ...

Degas: A Passion for Perfection will showcase prolific French artist Edgar Degas’ works from 1855 to 1906. More than 100 works consisting of paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes, and ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar Degas. She wants the world to understand that he painted so much more than dancers and laundresses and did so in a variety of ...

As the contemporary French historian Daniel Halévy put it, Degas “became an impoverished painter who had to earn his living and support his brothers who had become poor like himself. His choice of new ...

Today’s automatic washers and dryers take care of our laundry, but anyone who has sopped up the watery overflow of a washing machine with towels or laboriously wrung out handwashed sheets can relate ...

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Edgar Degas, “Factory Smoke (Fumées d’usines)” (1877–79), monotype on paper, plate: 4 11/16 x 6 5/16 inches, sheet: 5 13/16 x 6 13/16 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha ...

“I must learn a blind man’s trade,” French Impressionist Edgar Degas said sadly toward the end of his life. Faced with rapidly failing eyesight, he turned increasingly to sculpture in wax as the one ...

Scientists have used X-ray images to show that the artist Edgar Degas used everyday objects, such as wine bottle corks, to bulk out his wax sculptures. Only three of the artist's rare beeswax ...

A formidable summer art exhibition of works by some of the major sculptors of modern and contemporary art, titled SCULPTORS: From Degas to Ruscha! will be presented by Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in ...