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When the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas died in 1917, his vast private collection of over 5,000 paintings, drawings, and prints came to light. This glorious assemblage contained many works by the French 19th-century masters Delacroix, Ingres, and Daumier, and also demonstrated Degas' profound interest in the art of his contemporaries, particularly Manet, Cızanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Cassatt. Long since dispersed, the collection is reconstructed for the first time in this absorbing book, published in conjunction with an exhibition opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in September 1997.Degas' passionate pursuit of the art he admired, his relationships with other artists, his desire to found a museum, and the sale of his work at auction in 1918 (as Paris was being bombed) are among the topics discussed in illuminating essays, some previously published and others newly commissioned. These 11 essays and the superb reproductions of outstanding paintings from the collection make this the definitive book on the artist as a collector.Ann Dumas is an independent art historian. Colta Ives is curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, Susan Alyson Stein is assistant curator in the Department of European Paintings, and Gary Tinterow is Engelhard Curator of European Paintings, all at the Metropolitan Museum.

"[T]his volume--with its illuminating essays, especially those by Ann Dumas and Gary Tinterow--gives us a sense of the passionate, particular taste that moved Degas to acquire a stunning array of well-chosen pieces by Ingres, Delacroix, Manet, Cizanne, van Gogh and Gauguin, among others."

Francine Prose, Wall Street Journal, 12/05/1997

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