Degas Pastels - Softcover

Maheux, Anne Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888845472 ISBN 13: 9780888845474

Publisher: National Gallery of Canada, 1988

Synopsis

Discusses the innovations Degas brought to the use of pastels, and analyzes a selection of his pastel drawings

About this title

About the Author:

Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.

From Publishers Weekly:

In producing 700 drawings in pastel, Degas (1834-1917) not only captured gauzy ballerinas, self-absorbed women bathers, milliners, nudes and concert-goers, he also exploited the medium's versatility to depict ethereal seascapes, brothel scenes and exotic Russian dancers. Representing the full range of his pastels, this comprehensive album superbly reproduces 70 pictures, each with facing-page commentary. In her short introductory essay, Boggs, a leading Degas scholar, contrasts his exuberant jockeys and diaphanous dancers with the deeply pessimistic, withdrawn figure studies that the artist, with failing eyesight, produced in the first decade of the 20th century. Maheux, conservator of graphic arts at the National Gallery of Canada, examines Degas' methods and materials, and shows how pastel, in his hands, evolved into a modern, infinitely variable medium that he combined with monotype, gouache, lithographs and other materials to achieve novel effects.
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About this edition

• Publisher: National Gallery of Canada
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0888845472
• ISBN 13: 9780888845474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96