Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was French, born in Paris in 1834 and working until his eyesight failed in the 1900s. He exhibited with the Impressionists and disliked the label, preferring to call himself a realist. Ballet gave him his lifelong subject. Roughly half his output shows dancers, and much of it shows them waiting, stretching or listening to a teacher rather than performing. The Rehearsal, The Star and Dance Class at the Opera all come from that world. Degas also painted the racecourse, milliners at work and his family's cotton office in New Orleans.
About Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas was French, born in Paris in 1834 and working until his eyesight failed in the 1900s. He exhibited with the Impressionists and disliked the label, preferring to call himself a realist. Ballet gave him his lifelong subject. Roughly half his output shows dancers, and much of it shows them waiting, stretching or listening to a teacher rather than performing. The Rehearsal, The Star and Dance Class at the Opera all come from that world. Degas also painted the racecourse, milliners at work and his family's cotton office in New Orleans.
The Degas Collection at BestOfBharat
The range covers the pastels and oils people know: dancers on stage, dancers in the wings, studies of a single figure tilting into a pose. Blue Dancers and The Green Dancer bring saturated colour. The black-and-white studies and line drawings sit at the quieter end. Sizes run from small studies for a shelf ledge to statement pieces for a stairwell, each printed on archival paper.
Degas in Your Space
Degas rewards a wall you pass slowly. A pair of dancer studies works well flanking a doorway or above a console table. The blue and green pastels lift rooms with cool grey or off-white walls; the sepia and charcoal studies suit warmer paint and wooden furniture. In a bedroom, hang a single figure at eye level from a seated position. In a hallway, a run of three small frames at even spacing reads better than one large piece.
Every artwork here is an archival print, hand-framed to order and delivered ready to hang — made in India.
