edgar degas

     

1876:<br />"Ballet Rehearsal"

Trivia about edgar degas

  • We know he painted the absinthe drinker seen here, though there's nary a tutu in sight:
  • A favorite subject of this painter is seen here:(ballet dancer)
  • Tutu much! A bronze ballerina by this artist was auctioned off for $11.9 million in 1996
  • Perceptive analysis of movement was a hallmark of this artist
  • His "Four Dancers" was not one of the 24 works he submitted to an Impressionist show in 1876
  • This Frenchman painted many portraits of ballet dancers including "Dancer With a Fan" in 1879
  • He painted Mademoiselle Lala hanging by her teeth in the circus, but he's more famous for his ballerinas
  • Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather look at his ballerinas than the "Two Laundresses" he drew in the 1880s
  • Not surprisingly, his 1872 painting "Musicians of the Orchestra" shows ballet dancers in the background
  • Pretty pictures by this French painter include "Dancers in Pink", "Dancers in the Foyer" & "Four Dancers"

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