Degas and the Ballet Gallery
FROM SEPTEMBER 17 to December 11, 2011, the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition focusing on Edgar Degas’ preoccupution with movement as an artist of the dance.
Entitled Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, it will trace the development of the artist’s ballet imagery throughout his career, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous expressiveness of his final years. Here are some examples…
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Edgar Degas. La Danse Grecque (Dancing Ballerinas). 1885-90. Pastel on joined paper laid down on board, 580 x 490 mm. On loan from the Honorable Earle I. Mack Collection.
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