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Ballet Class
Edgar Degas
Umbrellas are 8 panel oversize (48")
Wooden shaft & tips
Matching tote pictured below
$70.00 / set or
40.00 umb. / 35.00 tote
S/H included (ground USA only) - air shipping or
outside USA will be billed actual cost
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Edgar Degas 1834 - 1917
Acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked
in many mediums, referring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for
his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of racehorses. These characteristics
set Degas apart from the other impressionist painters, although he took part in
all but one of their 8 exhibitions. In the early 1870s the female ballet dancer
became his favorite theme. He sketched from a live model in his studio and combined
poses into groupings that depicted rehearsal and performance scenes in which dancers
on stage, entering the stage, and resting or waiting to perform are shown simultaneously
and in counterpoint. In 1881 he exhibited a sculpture, Little Dancer (a bronze
casting of which is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), and as his eyesight failed
thereafter he turned increasingly to sculpture, modeling figures and horses in
wax over metal armatures. These sculptures were cast in bronze only after his
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