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Drawing
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
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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
1987.65
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Memorial Art Gallery
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Print
Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café Ambassadeurs
Edgar Degas, 1834 - 1917
Degas, Edgar
France
1834 - 1917
Male
13 7/16 x 10 3/4 in. (34.1 x 27.3 cm)
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Print
Edgar Degas lived in Montmartre, a lively area of Paris that was filled with cafés, music halls, and theaters. Degas, who was a great patron of these entertainment venues, made four lithographs of the well-known singer Emélie Bécat, shown here in a performance at the café Ambassadeurs.
In order to emphasize the stark contrasts of such dramatic night scenes, Degas began by blackening the printing plate completely with ink; he then extracted light-struck forms such as the gas lamps, fireworks, and moonlight seen in this lithograph.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
lower right, in margin, Text within a horizontal oval with sideways S at center separating the words, and a star at either endlower right, in margin, In a rectangle-- Lockhard collector's stamplower right, in margin, Mark of Charles Brown Eddy (Lugt 499), 1872-1951lower left, in marginlower left, in marginlower left, in marginlower left, in marginlower left, in marginlower center, in marginlower right, in marginverso
1981.40
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