Edgar Degas, 1898 - The Dancers - fine art print

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Edgar Degas was one of the great masters of pastel, a medium he favored throughout his career. Beginning in the 1870s, in a series of pastels devoted to the subject of dancers, Degas tirelessly explored movement, light, and color, producing a body of work unrivalled in beauty and innovation. In The Dancers (1898) a late masterpiece, Degas used the medium with a freedom and power that belie his failing sight. He deftly defined forms with short, vigorous parallel strokes of pastel in bold colors, adding dabs of white chalk like strings of dazzling pearls to enliven the surface of his dancers' dresses. Degas's composition is daring; he decapitates one dancer, dangles the truncated leg of another, and slashes the left foreground with a prop tree, thus framing and isolating his balletic trio, who are caught, snapshot-like, frozen between rest and movement. The Dancers, whose subject is iconic within the artist's oeuvre, is only the second Degas pastel to enter the collection. Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof.

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The more than 120 years old artwork was made by the impressionist master Edgar Degas in 1898. The version of the painting measures the size: 29 x 24 in. Pastel on paper on board was applied by the French painter as the medium of the painting. This piece of art is in the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's art collection, which is located in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. This public domain artpiece is included with courtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (www.lacma.org).Additionally, the artpiece has the creditline: . Further, the alignment is portrait with an image ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The photographer, poet, engraver, painter, sculptor Edgar Degas was an artist from France, whose style was mainly Impressionism. The artist lived for a total of 83 years - born in the year 1834 and died in the year 1917.

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