DEGAS AND NEW ORLEANS; A FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST IN AMERICA. [Edgar Degas.]

Feigenbaum, Gail. Jean Sutherland Boggs (catalogue). Christopher Benfey, Marilyn R. Brown, James B. Byrnes, Victoria Cooke, Christina Vella, et al (essays). New Orleans Museum of Art; Ordrupgaard. [Edgar Degas, 1834-1917]

ISBN 10: 0894940732 / ISBN 13: 9780894940736

Published by New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art [NOMA] in conjunction with Ordrupgaard, 1999., 2000

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xiv, 302 pages. Large paperback: H 28cm x L 24cm. Stiff paper covers rubbed, slight curling at front cover's fore-edge, light vertical crease to spine. Slight soiling to edge; small dark stain at upper fore-edge with a few leaves fractionally affected at margins; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. With Patron's Preface, Lenders to the Exhibition, Director's Foreword, Acknowledgements, b/w and color illustrations throughout, Selected Bibliography, and Photograph Credits. Features essays and material titled as: "Edgar Degas, Almost a Son of Louisiana" by Gail Feigenbaum; "Degas and New Orleans: Exorcizing the Exotic" by Christopher Benfey; "The Country for Men with Nerve" by Christina Vella; "Franco-American Aspects of Degas's 'A Cotton Office in New Orleans'" by Marilyn R. Brown; "A Tale of Two Families: The De Gas-Musson Correspondence at Tulane University" by Marilyn R. Brown; "New Orleans and the Work of Degas" by Jean Sutherland Boggs; "Catalogue" by Jean Sutherland Boggs (pages 105-264) with "Provenances" and "Checklist: Supplemental Objects" plus "Appendix I: Degas's Family in New Orleans: A Who's Who" by James B. Byrnes & Victoria Cooke and "Appendix II: Degas's Letters from New Orleans." Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.25 pounds (1.92 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0894940732.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEGAS AND NEW ORLEANS; A FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST IN AMERICA. [Edgar Degas.]
• Publisher: New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art [NOMA] in conjunction with Ordrupgaard, 1999.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0894940732
• ISBN 13: 9780894940736
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Edgar Degas is admired today as the quintessential artist of Paris: painter of ballet dancers, bathers, and laundresses, of the racetrack and the theater. Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America explores a different Degas in another place: a sojourner with his family in New Orleans, on the unique occasion when the subtlest and most advanced ideas of French painting alighted on the banks of the Mississippi River. Degas and New Orleans accompanies a major exhibition that reassembles most of the fascinating art that Degas created during his visit and places this work in its remarkable context of family drama and American history.

In addition to the works generally believed to have been executed by Degas in New Orleans, the book includes paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture done in Europe that reflect Degas's relationship to the city and that are specifically related in theme or style, or are very close in date. Finally, to help clarify its character, the New Orleans work is complemented by a selection of Degas's "typical" subjects, such as dancers and racetracks. Family letters, documents, heirlooms, and vintage photographs from the period help to summon forth the context of the sole visit to America by a French Impressionist.

About the Author

Gail Feigenbaum, curator of paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is an expert on French and Italian paintings.

Jean Sutherland Boggs, emeritus director of the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is a world-renowned expert on Degas.