A follow-up to In the Garden with Van Gogh provides a simple introduction to French artist Edgar Degas and his pastel paintings of ballerinas.
In the City of Lights, at the dawn of a new age, begins an unforgettable story of great love, great art—and the most painful choices of the heart.
In the City of Lights, at the dawn of a new age, begins an unforgettable story of great love, great art—and the most painful choices of the heart.
During more than forty years of his working life, Edgar Degas made at least a thousand drawings, pastels, prints, and oil paintings - to say nothing of photographs, poems, and...
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life.
Illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, this text follows the development of Degas's ballet imagery.
Like the captivating bestseller, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, this exciting new series explores the stories behind the girls featured in some of the world's most dazzling paintings. Welcome...
Susan E. Meyer, Edgar Degas (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994) 37. PAGE 48 “I was in love with art.” Forbes, “Degas: a passion for perfection,” 3 of 9. PAGE 49 “And very few lights.” Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, 305.
The life, dreams, and struggles of the fourteen-year-old dancer who posed for Degas's most famous sculpture
Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” In the end, each will come to realize ...
Complete with reproductions of Degas' work, this is another inspirational story from Laurence Anholt's bestselling series, celebrating some of the world's greatest artists and the real children who knew them.