Drawing-Sculpture Workshop for Elementary School Children Nov 19, 2009
27/11/2009 24/4/2010, -, , Edgar Degas ... On the occasion of the exhibitionfrom 27/11/2009 until 24/4/2010,the Herakleidon Museum organizes adrawing-sculpture workshopfor elementary school children,based on the art of Edgar Degas ... The children, through a pleasant tour of... (AbsoluteArts.com)
$180M take buoys hope for art market Nov 7, 2009
"This remains a buoyant market for the freshest and finest works of Impressionist and modern art, as we witnessed Tuesday evening with the extraordinary results achieved for Rodin's "The Kiss" and for Edgar Degas' "Danseuses," said Christie's spokesperson Toby Usnik. Usnik said the auction house also anticipates good results next week in "major sales of post-war and contemporary art," including important works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. Can the market for high-end art... (CNN)
Rare Degas bronze caps Grays auction Nov 6, 2009
Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 1:10 AM EST When auctioneer Deba Gray stumbled upon a rare Edgar Degas bronze in a New York warehouse seven years ago, she embarked upon an intriguing investigation. How did the valuable small sculpture end up in a showroom of a company that made garden urns. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
A diluted president with pure taste in art Oct 9, 2009
The French will be pleased that two works by Edgar Degas are represented. The original 1849 telegraph machine that Samuel Morse patented will be on display in the Oval Office, displacing Saddam Hussein's sidearm, which the previous occupant enshrined under glass. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Stunning art theft has a Harvard link Sep 30, 2009
Amadio described 16 of the pieces as significant, including works by Jackson Pollock, Edgar Degas, Rembrandt, and Renoir. The stolen art was valued at $27 million by the Monterey (Calif. (Boston Globe)
Endless forms most beautiful Sep 6, 2009
Few today are aware his work directly and indirectly affected such renowned painters as Paul Czanne (1839-1906), Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and the French Impressionists generally. A stunning example is Degas Little Dancer, Aged 14, a bronze statue that caused a stir when shown in 1880 because, as polite society pointed out in scandalised tones, it had a very simian, monkey-like appearance and looked like something that belonged in a museum of medicine or natural... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Degas exhibit at New Orleans home where he lived Aug 18, 2009
Search Type Choose a search type from the items below. Most Blogged - Travel. (Yahoo News)
'Degas & Music' a feast for eyes and ears at Hyde Collection Aug 10, 2009
Edgar Degas' "Dancer on the Stage" has a lone figure balancing precariously en pointe with one arm arching forward as the other leg floats behind her. Look at the painting long enough, and your eye tricks the mind into seeing her pirouette across the stage. (Albany Times Union)
Art and The Caf Jul 29, 2009
Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet created portraits of rather bleary absinthe drinkers, but Czech artist Oliva kept his vision more within the realm of sensual fantasy. Absinthe eventually developed a reputation for causing mental illness and addiction, though research has suggested that many of the negative claims were exaggerated. (Suite101.com)
N.O. celebrates Degas' 175th birthday Jul 18, 2009
NEW ORLEANS - This weekend, New Orleans marks the 175th birthday of a French impressionist artist Edgar Degas who lived in New Orleans and created some of his most famous works here. Video: Watch the Story. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Securing art and reputation Jul 7, 2009
Edgar Degas, Self-Portait c.1854 Oil on paper laid down on canvas, on loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Stephan C. Clark, 1960, at the Hyde Collection ... The Hyde Collection's Erin Coe, Deputy director and chief curator, left, and Barbara Rathburn, registrar, right, examine "Dancer on the Stage" by Edgar Degas ... GLENS FALLS -- When you're loaning the Hyde Collection two 19th-century paintings by the French Impressionist master Edgar Degas worth millions from your collection... (Albany Times Union)
Dance and Modern Art Jul 3, 2009
Works by Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Everett Shinn and August Macke ... Edgar Degas may have disagreed with being labeled "the painter of dancers," but he nonetheless found the dance so inspiring that he focused on it for years and produced numerous ballet-related works ... Edgar Degas and The Dance. (Suite101.com)
Late 19th Century Scenes of Summer Jun 22, 2009
Cassatt, like her fellow Impressionists Edgar Degas and Claude Monet, would come under the spell of Japanese art during the latter decades of the 19th century and used key principles of Japanese composition and color in her own work. In 1890, Cassatt made several visits to a show of Japanese prints at Paris ;cole des Beaux-Arts, including one trip with Edgar Degas, with whom Cassatt shared an interesting artistic friendship. (Suite101.com)
'Summer Hours' explores a catalog memories in a family home for sale May 22, 2009
Olivier Assayas's "Summer Hours" features three adult siblings, several long conversations about whether to sell their family's sprawling country house, and one plastic grocery bag containing the plaster pieces of an Edgar Degas sculpture. The movie is full of quiet and sadness. (Boston Globe)
Phillips Collection Annual Gala Unites Washington's Notables in Support of Arts Education May 17, 2009
The Phillips Collection offers an intimate encounter with one of the finest collections of impressionist and modern American and European art, with works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honore Daumier, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Diebenkorn, among others. The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, has an active... (PR Newswire)
Highlights in a Hurry at the Paris ... May 9, 2009
Highlights in a Hurry at the Paris Orsay. Highlights in a Hurry at the Paris Orsay. (Suite101.com)
Absinthe and the Arts Apr 30, 2009
The artists most associated with absinthe during this period were Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, and Vincent van Gogh. Toulouse-Lautrec, in particular, painted many works featuring absinthe, including a portrait of van Gogh, and was said to traverse Paris with a hollow cane filled with the green spirit, as well as a pet cormorant who also took a nip on occasion. (Suite101.com)
New Orleans starts tour from Edgar Degas' house Apr 7, 2009
NEW ORLEANS A visit to the Degas House the historic New Orleans home where French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas lived for a short time with relatives now comes with a walking tour of some of the streets, parks and homes he roamed while living here. Degas' Creole relatives on his mother's side, the Musson Family, hosted the artist at their home on Esplanade Avenue in the neighborhood known as Esplanade Ridge from the fall of 1872 to the spring of 1873. (Yahoo News)
Follow the Art Trail! Apr 7, 2009
Collections in 19 intact rooms include original furnishings, paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, ;douard Manet, James M. Whistler and Mary Cassatt. As with many of the museums, the docent s knowledge puts the art and architecture into an exciting historic context. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Auction houses get creative Mar 25, 2009
A sculpture by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas sold last month through Sotheby's in London for a record $29. 5 million but other valuable works failed to sell. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
One wee work leaves quite an impression Mar 16, 2009
It's ironic the art world's obsession with them has given the National Gallery of Australia space to buy its first pastel by one of the biggest names in the medium, Edgar Degas. A posthumous sale of the collection of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent last month had buyers scrambling for larger works by Picasso and Matisse, allowing the gallery to snap up Woman Bathing for $1. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Art.view: Spring sprung Mar 15, 2009
A European private collector paid Simon Dickinson's 10m for Toilette Matinale , a charming Edgar Degas pastel of a young woman in her nightdress, plaiting her hair. Another private collector paid a high-six-figure sum for a large, ornate carved lacquer panel from the Qianlong period in China that hung on the end of the wall of Ben Janssen's elegant stand. (The Economist)
Monet Exhibits at Te Papa Wellingto... Mar 14, 2009
The works are organised chronologically around the viewing area, from the mid-19th century "Twilight" by Jean-Baptiste-Cammille Corot, to the early 20th century "Water Lilies" by Monet, and Edgar Degas "Dancer looking at the sole of her right foot". Water Lilies and the Petite Creuse Paintings are Luminous Works. (Suite101.com)
'The Gardner Heist' is a real whodunit Feb 27, 2009
Gone are Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee," "A Lady and Gentleman in Black," and a postage-stamp-size self-portrait; Johannes Vermeer's "The Concert"; Govaert Flinck's "Landscape With an Obelisk"; five sketches by Edgar Degas; and Edouard Manet's "Chez Tortoni.". Shelley Murphy is a member of the Globe staff. (Boston Globe)
Artist Mary Cassatt in Spain Feb 26, 2009
She studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts and later joined the French Impressionist school of painters, a group which included Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte and Edgar Degas ... She was eventually invited to exhibit independently with the French Impressionists by artist Edgar Degas, and she would become friends with Degas and linked with the Impressionist group throughout the rest of her life. (Suite101.com)
Yves Saint Laurent art sells for €206 million Feb 24, 2009
The very first lot was a hilly landscape seen by Edgar Degas through an open window from a room in Rome or Naples during the long trip that took him to Italy between 1856 and 1859, in the Romantic naturalistic style of the time. It bears no relationship either to his very Spartan landscapes of the late 1860s or his Impressionist period, and yet it brought a healthy 457,000. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Degas ballerina bronze sold at London auction Feb 8, 2009
A sculpture by French Impressionist Edgar Degas sold for 13. 3 million pounds ($19 million) Tuesday at Sotheby's auction house in London. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Degas ballerina sculpture sells for $19 million Feb 7, 2009
Sang Tan / AP fileLily Howes, 13, a student of the Royal Ballet School, poses beside the Edgar Degas sculpture Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, (Little dancer aged 14), on display in an auction house in London ... LONDON - A sculpture by French Impressionist Edgar Degas sold for 13. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
