Degas and the ballet :

DeVonyar, Jill.

Degas and the ballet : picturing movement / Jill Devonyar and Richard Kendall. - London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2011. - 288 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 Sept. to 18 Dec. 2011.

Edgar Degas (18341917) is best known for his luminous studies of dancers. Illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, this text follows the development of Degas's ballet imagery.

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Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 --Exhibitions.


Ballet dancers in art--Exhibitions.
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