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Edgar Degas

French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings, especially of dancers.

Edgar Degas

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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, a French Impressionist artist, was born on 19 July 1834 and died on 27 September 1917.[1] Dance is the subject most strongly associated with Degas; dancers appear in over half of his total output.[2] Portraits, along with depictions of racehorses and their jockeys, are other subjects Degas painted.[3]

Quick Facts

Birth name
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
Born
19 July 1834
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
27 September 1917
Field
  • Painting
  • sculpture
  • drawing
Movement
Impressionism

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

He began painting early in life and enrolled at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand at age eleven.[4] In 1855 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied drawing with Louis Lamothe.[5][6] Upon returning to France in 1859, Degas moved into a Paris studio and began painting The Bellelli Family.[7] He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1865.[7]

Degas took a leading role in organizing the eight Impressionist Exhibitions between 1874 and 1886.[8] Augustin De Gas, a banker, and Célestine Musson De Gas, a Creole from New Orleans, had five children, of whom Degas was the eldest.[9] A trip to Italy began in July 1856 and lasted for three years.[10] Degas remained unmarried, and during his final years his eyesight was almost completely gone; his death occurred in September 1917.[11]

What the cited sources add

The Smithsonian Magazine article notes that Degas told art dealer Ambroise Vollard his chief interest in dancers lay in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.[12] The same source reports that Degas met Édouard Manet in 1862 while copying a Velázquez at the Louvre.[12] The Degaslegacy.com account states that Edgar Degas came to live and paint at his uncle's New Orleans home in 1872-1873.[13] The Rich book notes that Degas's earlier meticulous naturalism was replaced in his later period by a growing abstraction of form.[14][15]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bollard, "Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names", Omnigraphics, Inc., 1998, p. 272; (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Trachtman, Paul, Degas and His Dancers, Smithsonian Magazine, April 2003; Gordon and Forge 1988, p. 31 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Brown 1994, p. 11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: The family's ancestral name was Degas. Jean Sutherland Boggs explains that De Gas was the spelling, "with some pretensions, used by the artist's father when he ; Baumann, et al. 1994, p. 86; Gordon and Forge 1988, p. 16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Werner 1969, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Canaday 1969, p. 930–931 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gordon and Forge 1988, p. 43; "Le château en vente pour 7 millions d'euros", Ouest-France.fr, 23 February 2013; Thomson 1988, p. 48 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gordon and Forge 1988, p. 31 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Baumann, et al. 1994, p. 86.; Brown, "Degas and the Business of Art", Penn State Press, 1994, p. 14 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Dunlop 1979, p. 19 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Baumann, et al. 1994, p. 99.; Thomson 1988, p. 211; Gordon and Forge 1988, p. 41 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Trachtman, Paul, Degas and His Dancers, Smithsonian Magazine, April 2003. facts only, no text reused. smithsonianmag.com
  13. "Michael Musson and Odile Longer: Degas' aunt and uncle in New Orleans", Degaslegacy.com, 30 March 1973. facts only, no text reused. degaslegacy.com
  14. Rich, Daniel Catton, Edgar-Hilaire Germain Degas, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1952, p. 6. facts only, no text reused. archive.org
  15. Wikipedia, "Edgar Degas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mannering 1994, pp. 70–77; Rich, Daniel Catton, Edgar-Hilaire Germain Degas, H.N. Abrams, New York, 1952, p. 6 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

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