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Biography of Edgar Degas

, is a French Impressionist painter and sculptor. His most famous paintings are dealing with ballet dancers, women dancers and racing horses. Generally, he is regarded as an Impressionist, but some of Degas paintings are with more features of Classicism, Realism and Romanticism. In 1862, he began to be interested in horse racing. In 1869, Edgar Degas drew a large amount of pastel paintings, majority of them are about beach. In early 1870s, Degas was fond of drawing ballet dancers very much. Since 1880, his vision began to decrease. So he turned to create sculptures and wax crayon paintings with lower requirement of vision. Now, the price of some of Degas paintings has reached 16 million dollars. So, oil painting lovers are very interested in Degas biography, and reproductions of his paintings for sale in gallery are prevalent.

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Edgar Degas Biography

French Impressionist painter, engraver, lithographer, printmaker, pastellist, draftsman, photographer & sculptor
born 19 July 1834 - died 27 September 1917
Also known as: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, Edgar Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar De Gas.
Friend of: Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).

Biography: DEGAS, HILAIRE GERMAIN EDGARD (1834-1917), French painter, was born in Paris on the 19th of July 1834. Entering in 1855 the École des Beaux Art, he early developed independence of artistic outlook, studying under Lamothe [1822-1869]. Edgar Degas first exhibited in the Salon of 1865, contributing a War in the Middle Ages, a work executed in pastel. To this medium he was ever faithful, using it for some of best Degas art. In 1866 his Steeplechase revealed him as a painter of the racecourse and of all the most modern aspects of life and of Parisian society, treated in an extremely original manner. Degas subsequently exhibited in 1867 Family Portraits, and in 1868 a portrait of a dancer in the Degas paintings Ballet of La Source.

In 1869 and 1870 he restricted himself to portraits; but thenceforward he abandoned the Salons and attached himself to the Impressionists. With Manet [1832-1883] and Monet [1840-1926] Edgar Degas took the lead of the new school at its first exhibition in 1874, and repeatedly contributed to these exhibitions (in 1876, 1878, 1879 and 1880). In 1868 he had shown his first study of a dancer, and in numerous pastels Degas proclaimed himself the painter of the ballet, representing its figurants in every attitude with more constant aim at truth than grace. Several of Degas paintings may be seen at the Luxembourg Gallery, to which they were bequeathed, among a collection of impressionist pictures, by M. Caillebotte [1848-1894]. In 1880 he showed his powers of observation in a set of Portraits of Criminals, and Edgar Degas attempted modeling in a Dancer, in wax. The most famous Degas paintings are The Bellelli Family, The Dance Class, L'Absinthe.

He afterwards returned to his studies of the sporting world, exhibiting in December 1884 at the Petit Gallery two views of Races which had a great success, proving the increasing vogue of the artist among collectors. Edgar Degas is ranked with Manet as the leader of the impressionist school. At the eighth Impressionist Exhibition, in 1886, Degas continued his realistic studies of modern life, showing Degas drawings of the nude, of workwomen, and of jockeys.

Besides his pastels and Degas paintings of genre and portraits among these, several likenesses of Manet, Degas also handled his favorite subjects in etching and in aquatint; and executed several lithographs of singers at café-concerts, of Degas paintings Ballet girls, and indeed of every possible subject of night-life and incidents behind the scenes. Degas art is to be seen not only at the Luxembourg but in many of the great private collections in Paris, in England and America. In the Centenary Exhibition of 1900 Edgar Degas exhibited The Interior of a Cotton-Brokers Office at New Orleans (belonging to the Museum at Pau) and The Rehearsal.

Analysis of Best Known Paintings by Edgar Degas

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Degas Paintings - The Dance Class (La classe de danse)
85×75cm 1873-1876
The painter paid attention to the colors and motions in the picture which are expressed by the motions and tutus of the ballet actresses. Degas chose a oblique point of view to expand the space, and he also used a corner of the ceiling to envelop the picture. Such a composition of The Dance Class (La classe de danse) is very original. Some balletdancers are practicing under the direction of their teacher. The teacher stands in the centre of Degas painting with a crutch in her hand. In the first row, two ballet actresses are waiting their turn to dance. One of them is holding a fan while the other is sitting on the piano twisting and scratching on her back. The Dance Class (La classe de danse) presents a striking contrast between the glamour of the dancing balletdancer and the inelegancy of the actresses in wait.
Large amount of Degas famous paintings on the scene of ballet dancing won him the title of “painter of ballet actresses”.

Degas Paintings - At the Races
Except for the scene of ballet, Degas created a number of horse racing paintings on canvas. He seldom depicted the on going horse racing because he concerned more about the occasional scene in the horse racing field, such as the posture of the horse and the expression of the rider in the painting of At the Races. He was more interested in the atmosphere there. At the Races is the most outstanding in the series of Degas horse racing oil painting.

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