NEW YORK -- Christie's pulled off the rare feat this week of scoring brilliantly with the thinnest evening auction of Impressionist and Modern art ever staged in New York. On Tuesday, with just 22 pictures, four drawings and five bronzes on offer, sales added up to a stupendous $117 million, leaving only three lots unwanted. Staggering prices were...
If you were hosting a dinner party for great artists of the past, you probably would not seat Rembrandt and Degas together. It's hard to imagine the hot-tempered humanist Rembrandt and the coldblooded formalist Degas having much to say to each other. But who knows? Here they are hanging like old pals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a small,...
BOSTON -- What's the difference between ''nude'' and ''naked''? ''Degas and the Nude,'' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, answers that question once and for all. This exceptional show -- which ought, perhaps, to have been called ''Degas and the Naked'' -- explores the unstinting, even cruel naturalism Degas brought to the female form. It will be...
Edgar Degas eller Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (19. juli 1834 - 27. september 1917), fransk maler og billedhugger;
Han var en af impressionisterne. Degas er kendt for modelstudier, ballet- og væddeløbsbilleder og motiver fra parisisk folkeliv, men også for sine fremragende bronzestatuetter af kvinder og heste, som Glyptoteket i København har en stor samling af.