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Dancer, Seen from Behind (Danseuse vue de dos)
Edgar Degas, 1834 - 1917
Degas, Edgar
France
1834 - 1917
Male
19 3/16 x 11 11/16 in. (48.7 x 29.7 cm)
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ca. 1878-1881
1878
1881
1800-1900, 19th century, dance, drawing, Lockhart Collection, women
Drawing
Often called “the painter of modern life,” Edgar Degas filled his canvases with images from the vibrant world of performance and spectacle in the clubs and theaters of Paris during the latter part of the 1800s. Ballet dancers appealed to Degas as a pictorial subject for two key reasons: they represented modern subjects, and they offered female bodies that could be naturally observed in a host of complicated poses. Drawing from innumerable studies, he created light-filled images that represent the essence of natural movement.
Dancer, Seen from Behind is a study for a figure in the far right of Dancers in the Rehearsal Room, with a Double Bass, which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
lower left, oval Degas atelier stamp [Lugt 657]lower left, Degas atelier sale stamp
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Dancers
Edgar Degas, 1834 - 1917
Degas, Edgar
France
1834 - 1917
Male
37 5/8 x 26 3/4 in. (95.6 x 67.9 cm)
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Pastel
ca. 1900
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1900-2000, 20th century, dance, drawing, women
Drawing
When asked by Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, an American collector, why he so often portrayed dancers, Degas replied “Because I find there, Madame, the combined movements of the Greeks.”
This pastel was produced late in the artist’s life when his eyesight had begun to fail. It is possible that his diminished vision resulted in the heavy contours that surround the dancers and give only the barest suggestion of their facial features. Rather than attempting great detail, he concentrated on mapping out the unpredictable effects of theatrical lighting on the forms of the figures.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
back of frame, From Cleveland Degas exhibition, Feb 7 - Mar 9 1947back of framelower leftback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panel, Label for AFA Degas and the Dance exhibitionback of panel, Label for National Gallery of Art Degas exhibition
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