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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
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culture · French Impressionist artist (1834–1917) · painter · sculptor · poet · printmaker · photographer · draftsperson · graphic artist · lithographer · artist · also Edgar Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, Degas
Born 19 July 1834 · Died 27 September 1917 · Q46373
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2023· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York exhibited a two-person exhibition of Degas and Manet
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2014· 1 entry
The National Gallery of Art examined their long friendship in its exhibit Degas/Cassatt
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2004· 1 entry
A little-known group of 73 plaster casts, more or less closely resembling Degas's original wax sculptures, was presented as having been discovered among the materials bought by the Airaindor Foundry (later known as Airai
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1937· 1 entry
“Did you ever see a student taking notes while the professor is lecturing?.. ..He ought to be rolling a cigarette.”
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1917· 3 entries
Died 1917-09-27.
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“What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.”
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Never again worked with him as closely as she had over the prints journal
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1912· 2 entries
When the impending demolition of his longtime residence on the rue Victor Massé forced him to move to quarters on the Boulevard de Clichy
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Or 1913 that "I would not want it known that I posed for it
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1886· 1 entry
Produced "the most concentrated body of critical writing on the artist during his lifetime
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1883· 1 entry
“Degas in 1883, as quoted by Colin B. Bailey, in The Annenberg Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism, publish. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 4”
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1881· 3 entries
When he exhibited The Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, which he had created using Marie van Goethem as a model
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Was probably his most controversial piece; some critics decried what they thought its "appalling ugliness" while others saw in it a "blossoming"
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Exhibited two pastels, Criminal Physiognomies, that depicted juvenile gang members recently convicted of murder in the "Abadie Affair"
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1877· 2 entries
Degas invited Mary Cassatt to exhibit in the third Impressionist exhibition
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Degas, Cassatt, and Lydia were often to be seen at the Louvre studying artworks together
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1873· 1 entry
And his father died the following year, whereupon Degas learned that his brother René had amassed enormous business debts
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1872· 1 entry
An extended stay in New Orleans, where his brother René and a number of other relatives lived
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1870· 1 entry
Degas enlisted in the National Guard, where his partaking in the defense of Paris left him little time for painting
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1864· 1 entry
(while both were copying the same Diego Velázquez portrait in the Louvre, according to a story that may be apocryphal)
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1861· 1 entry
Degas visited his childhood friend Paul Valpinçon in Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes, and made the earliest of his many studies of horses
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1859· 1 entry
Degas moved into a Paris studio large enough to permit him to begin painting The Bellelli Family—an imposing canvas he intended for exhibition in the Salon, although it remained unfinished until 1867
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1858· 1 entry
While staying with his aunt's family in Naples, he made the first studies for his early masterpiece The Bellelli Family
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1855· 1 entry
Met Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, whom he revered and whose advice he never forgot: "Draw lines, young man, and still more lines, both from life and from memory, and you will become a good artist
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1853· 1 entry
At age 18, he had turned a room in his home into an artist's studio
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1834· 1 entry
Born 1834-07-19.
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