THE DAILY PIC (#1593): Which 19 th-century technology managed to freeze and preserve transient moments? If you answered “the photograph”, you get a B+ (known in my student days as a C). If you ...

YEARS AGO at the Metropolitan Museum, I fell in love with the sculptures of Degas. Like most enthusiasts who are only familiar with his pastels or oils. I was surprised to find that he had sculpted at ...

If the name Edgar Degas brings to mind Impressionist paintings of ballerinas, an upcoming summer exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) might expand your understanding of the artist’s ...

Every picture tells a story – but that’s not the way Edgar Degas looked at it. The Impressionist painter, known mainly for his pictures of ballerinas, was more interested in the form of his subjects, ...

Edgar Degas, “Factory Smoke (Fumées d’usines)” (1877–79), monotype on paper, plate: 4 11/16 x 6 5/16 inches, sheet: 5 13/16 x 6 13/16 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha ...

He is one of the great draftsmen of the impressionist era, acclaimed for strongly structured compositions and a masterful use of line. But when Edgar Degas discovered the printmaking technique known ...

The MFA’s ‘Degas and the Nude’ exhibit offers a candid, and occasionally uncomfortable, look at the tensions at work in an artist’s life No 19th-century artist paid closer attention to the naked ...

Edgar Degas was one of the the most important painters, cartoonists, graphic artists, innovative sculptors and photographers of the 19th century. The exhibition of his works from a private collection ...

For a while, you will forget the ballet dancers, horse races, milliners' shops, laundresses and insightful portraits of family and friends, and enter the brothel, the boudoir and the bath, where Edgar ...

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