For a time, Degas turned his attention to the abonnés, stalking them as they stalked the dancers. In the 1870s the elder Halévy had written a series of stories, The Cardinal Family, satirizing the ...

Edgar Degas was transfixed by the beauty of the ballet — but even more fascinated by the hard work of its dancers. The Phillips Collection in... Degas' Dancers: Behind The Scenes, At The Barre It's ...

From family portraits to absinthe drinkers, racehorses to circus performers, Edgar Degas depicted many subjects in his pieces, but his most prolific output was paintings of young Parisian ballerinas.

Ballerinas kept Edgar Degas on his toes. The famed artist may have been an unapologetic misogynist, but women — the most feminine of dancers, in fact — served as his most potent muse. More than half ...

Charcoal and pastel on joined paper laid down on card Degas' fascination with the world of the ballet began in the 1860s but the work from his later career is distinguished by his move from producing ...

The two climate activists who smeared paint on Edgar Degas's "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" (1878–1881) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, earlier this spring have been indicted. Timothy ...

The National Gallery has changed the title of Edgar Degas' drawing Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers", prompting calls for other cultural institutions to rethink interpretations of art. The ...

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 ...

Like a young ballet dancer practicing daily routines at the barre, Edgar Degas labored over his artwork to get it just right. Born in 1834, Degas exhibited with the Impressionists but called himself a ...