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Discusses the innovations Degas brought to the use of pastels, and analyzes a selection of his pastel drawings
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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.
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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Boggs, a leading Degas scholar, contrasts his exuberant jockeys and diaphanous dancers with the deeply pessimistic, withdrawn figure studies that the artist, with failing eyesight, produced in the first decade of the 20th century.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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- PublisherTHAMES HUDSON
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0500015538
- ISBN 13 9780500015537
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1992. Quarto, beige cloth boards, white T&H logo to front; white titles to spine. 191pp, 85 illustrations, of which 70 are in colour. Tight, bright and clean, with no inscriptions or annotations. ffep has light diagonal crease , some shelf darkening to pale cloth edges, otherwise near-Fine. Dustwrapper entire, with blank strengthening foldover top and bottom, as issued. Not price-clipped; green, with detail of 'Jockeys in the Rain' covering front, spine and half of rear panel, white and turquoise titles.Some slight handling marks to rear panel, but otherwise bright and clean and wholly undamaged. A nice copy, near-Fine/near-Fine. Now in removable clear wraps. Seller Inventory # 0083
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