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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Edgar Degas, Dancers Practicing at the Bar, 1876-77 - Mixed media on canvas, 76 x 81 cm - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin), 1879 https://t.co/M8pxpssZ86

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edgar degas, le tub, 1886

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"On a remarqué que de tous les animaux, les femmes, les mouches et les chats sont ceux qui passent le plus de temps à leur toilette."
Charles Nodier (romancier, 1780 - 1844)
🎨Edgard Degas, 1884 / Louis Anquetin, 1889 / Wladyslaw Slewinski, 1897 / Berthe Morisot, 1890

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Degas, "La classe de danse" & "Danseuses" in "Degas à l’Opéra" au
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Edgar Degas, Dancers Practicing at the Barre, 1877 https://t.co/sLvEX8VZHd

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Berthe Morisot au "Élève de Corot, muse de Manet, elle s’impose comme la première femme impressionniste et sera aux côtés de Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro l’un des principaux membres du groupe https://t.co/DLF6UVTWGB ⤵️ https://t.co/NL1xgQ6DV7

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Edgar Degas, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1952
Format: Exhibition Catalogue
Designer/s: Willem Sandberg
Year: 1952
Client: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Size: 190mm x 260mm

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Numerous European artists - Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh – were influenced by Japanese wood block prints 🌎of an earlier era. It is v. apparent in in Van Gogh’s Irises the close-up view with no sky, ☁️& the way that the irises flow right off the edges

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Edgar L'étoile, vers 1876, pastel sur monotype, « Degas met les visiteurs face à un sujet sensible : les jeunes danseuses sont alors connues pour vendre leurs charmes à des protecteurs pour les spectateurs et journaux de l’époque, elle est l’image même de la débauche »

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Peder S Krøyer(1851-1909)aka P. S. Krøyer, Danish painter. Raised by aunt, Bertha Cecilie & brother-in-law, the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, after his mother was judged unfit. Studied under Léon Bonnat, influenced by impressionists :Monet, Sisley, Degas, Renoir & Manet

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His idea of symbolism was influenced by the occult & mysticism, popular at the time. Boy with Skull (1893), Two Boys (1893) & Head (1894). Youngsters symbolised life & possibility & skulls, death. He was inspired by French artists’ similar naked images (Degas, 1860)

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