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It’s well worth dropping in to Sothebys at the moment because they’ve got shedloads of great art on display including Degas, Antony Gormley, Anselm Kiefer, and a cow looking at the camera like she’s on The Office, by Fernand Leger.

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2022-02-26

Edgar Degas, Bather Sponging Her Knee, ca. 1883–84 https://t.co/Wupy0lTfLo

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2022-01-26

Edgar Degas, Femme lisant, C. 1883-85, Pastel over monotype on paper

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2022-01-26

'A Peasant Woman'~ Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, (1871)

A Peasant Woman is part of small series of works where he tackles the problems of painting white material against light with its opposing qualities of transparency and opacity.

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2022-01-18

Edgar Degas, Dancers Practicing at the Barre, 1877 https://t.co/wfuJP01SWV

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2022-01-10

Edgar Degas, Bather Sponging Her Knee, ca. 1883–84 https://t.co/Wupy0lTfLo

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2021-12-16

'A Peasant Woman'~ Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, (1871)

The Breton girl's white headdress is illuminated by the bright sunlight which pours in through a transparent white curtain. This painting also reveals Degas pre-occupation with countre-jour, modelling mass against light.

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2021-11-29

Degas, Chanteuse au café 1879

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2021-11-23

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes."

Edgar Degas, French painter and sculptor, DOTD 1917

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2021-09-27

Before embarking on a picture book career (at the age of 42), this fine artist was thought of as equal to Rembrandt, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Matisse.

This is our post on Monique Martin, otherwise known as “Gabrielle Vincent”. https://t.co/B860BIAk92

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2021-09-25