Degas PastelsThis book includes seventy reproductions of pastels from various collections worldwide as well as essay with historical context, and the working methods and materials that Degas employed, focusing on innovative techniques that incorporated the use of fixative and of the pastel medium wet. |
Contents
A Sketch of Degass Life With Pastel | 7 |
Looking Into Degass Pastel Technique | 19 |
Notes to the Commentaries | 171 |
Copyright | |
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Ambroise Vollard April artist Atelier Degas Ballet Bath bather Bellelli blue Boggs brush Burrell Collection Café café-concert casein catalogue composition contours dancers Degas DATE Degas exhibits Degas Pastels Degas's distemper dress Edgar Degas figure Galerie Durand-Ruel Galerie Georges Petit gouache green hair Havemeyer Impressionist exhibition ink vente stamp Jean Sutherland Boggs laid paper landscape layers of pastel legs LEMOISNE listed as pastel Louvre lower left DATE lower right Loyrette Ludovic Halévy Manet Mary Cassatt medium Metropolitan Museum milliners monotype Musée d'Orsay Museum of Art National Gallery Notebook Nude Woman Opéra orange Ordrupgaard Pantazzi in 1988 pastel Pastel on tracing Pastel over monotype pastel paste Pastellistes Français peinture pigments pink plate portrait present owner Private collection PROVENANCE Red ink vente Reed-Shapiro Reff sheet singer smudged Société des Pastellistes stage flat strokes surface texture Tinterow tion towel tracing paper tutus yellow York Zacharian