Edgar Degas Livres

Cinquante-trois reproductions des oeuvres de Degas; quelques pages sur la vie et l'art de ce peintre.

" J'ai rêvé que j'étais une ballerine, et que je passais toute ma vie à danser avec la légèreté d'un papillon... ", Anna Pavlova.

paper back copy, excellent book

This book includes seventy reproductions of pastels from various collections worldwide as well as essay with historical context,and the working methods and materials that Degas employed, focusing on innovative techniques that incorporated the use of fixative and of the pastel medium wet.

EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917) became a professional painter through a change in his family's fortunes. He grew up the privileged son of wealthy and cultured parents and despite his interest in art was destined for a career in law until the failure of the family bank. More than any of his famous contemporaries, while possibly excluding Manet, Degas was a traditionalist painter. He was dismissive of the Impressionist technique as a method, although he participated in most of the group's early exhibitions. As a result, he is more closely allied in popular understanding with Impressionism than he himself ever wished to be. Best known for his paintings of ballet Dancers, Degas was an urbane and savagely witty man, choosing his subjects from the cultured society life of Paris in which he was a well known figure.

DEGAS BY HIMSELF is a milestone in published approaches to the work of this remarkable figure. No other book has illustrated so many of Degas' works in colour, including his best-known paintings and sketches, as well as many works that will be unfamiliar to most people. The book draws on a range of sources - the artist's own notebooks and letters, as well as anecdotes and memoirs from his intimate circle - to trace a vivid portrait of Degas and reveal intimate aspects of his life and personality. His notebooks and letters show him as a forceful and expressive writer; there are letters to friends and customers, urgent messages to exhibitors at the Impressionist exhibition and, finally, a number of short and sad letters from his last years. Degas was also known as a wit and conversationalist, provoking a number of his friends to write down his words for posterity. For the first time, reminiscences and reported remarks have been brought together, conjuring up an unexpected picture of the artist as a man of wisdom and good humour.

Degas's scenes of the ballet seem to summarize the vitality and the fragile glamour of the modern spectacle. The text which accompanies the illustrations looks at Degas's varied use of media and discusses the in-between world of theatre wings where fact and fiction collide.

Including more than two hundred full-color reproductions of his famous works and a collection of writings from his diaries and textbooks, a portrait of Degas reveals his discipline, intense self-criticism, artistic struggles, and reflective side.

RO60110628. DEGAS AS A COLLECTOR. 1996. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 77 pages. Photo en couleur en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en couleur et en noir et blanc, dans et hors texte. Texte sur 3 colonnes.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Explores Degas' artistic personality and personal interests and reproduces examples of his work.

This splendid collection of artworks in miniature spotlights the talents of one of the most important―and popular―French artists of the 19th century. Sixteen of Edgar Degas's most famous paintings, appearing here in sticker format, include The Dance Examination, After the Bath, Ballet Dancers on the Stage, Singer with a Glove, L'Absinthe, and 11 others. Perfect for enhancing stationery items or simply adding to a personal collection, these stunning reproductions will delight lovers of fine art and admirers of works by this major Impressionist. Original Dover (1998) publication.

Der neue Band der erotischen Skizzenbücher zeigt über 30 selten gezeigte Aktstudien des französischen Ballett-Malers Edgar Degas. Er war ein geradezu körpervernarrter Frauenmaler, der mit seinen erotischen Skizzen, die er überwiegend in den Pariser Bordellen anfertigte, freimütige und selbstvergessene Momente seiner Modelle einfing. Nicht zuletzt durch die außergewöhnliche Gestaltung, die an ein Originalskizzenbuch erinnert, wird aus diesem Band ein ganz besonderer Kunstgenuss.

Ouvrage sur la vie et l'œuvre du peintre français Edgar Degas (1834-1917).

Sbírka obsahuje přibližně jednu třetinu sonetů v originále i v překladu, které doprovázejí reprodukce obrazů autora, čelného představitele francouzského impresionismu v malířství a sochařství. Podobně jako jeho výtvarné dílo zachycují i básně především svět divadla, tanečnic a koňských závodišť, viděný malířovými smysly, vnímajícími hlavně pohyb, barvy a světla.

Catalogus met uitgebreide beschrijvingen van de tentoongestelde schilderijen.