Edgar Degas: 170+ Impressionist Paintings - Impressionism

EDGAR DEGAS Art Book includes 170+ professionally color corrected reproductions of ballet dancers, horses and portrait subjects with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).

BORN: July 19, 1834 in Paris, France
DIED: September 27, 1917 in Paris, France.

MOVEMENT: Impressionism

INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Degas enlisted in the National Guard at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
§ Over half of Degas’s paintings depict dancers.
§ Degas developed a strong passion for photography.
§ He criticized his fellow impressionists for painting, En plein air, “in the open air.”
§ Degas believed that “the artist must live alone, and his private life must remain unknown.” Subsequently, he never married and spent his final years wandering the streets of Paris alone.

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A Cotton Office in New Orleans, L’Absinthe, La Toilette, Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.