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Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar (b. July 19, 1834, Paris, Fr.--d. Sept. 27, 1917, Paris) ; French artist, acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others.
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Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet and its dancers. The impulse towards painting the contemporary scene came to him not only from Courbet and Manet but from his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the aesthetics of naturalism.
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Edgar Degas at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Edgar Degas at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Exhibition: Degas and the Dance; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Many works by Edgar Degas;
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Edgar Degas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Degas Images ... Edgar Degas images and biography ... "...Aspects of Degas's work - mainly, his ballet paintings from the 1880S - have long been popular with a broad audience; too much so for their own good. But he has never been a "popular" artist like the wholly inferior Auguste Renoir, whose Paris-Boston retrospective in...
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Edgar Degas was born into the family of bankers of aristocratic extraction. His mother died in 1847, so the boy's father, Auguste de Gas, and grandfather, Hilaire de Gas, were the most influential figures in his early life.
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