Edgar Degas Books
Degas and the business of art
Edgar Degas's painting entitled A Cotton Office in New Orleans is one of the most significant images of nineteenth-century capitalism, in part because it was the first painting by an Impressionist...
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Degas Landscapes
Degas is renowned for his masterful studies of the human body - powerfully rendered paintings of dancers, jockeys, washerwomen and bathers. It is less well known, however, that he also produced cha...
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The Private Degas
By Fitzwilliam Museum, Richard Thomson, Edgar Degas, Whitworth Art Gallery., Thomson, Richard
Examines Degas's working methods, including planning, alterations, and final painting, and explains why he felt repetition was important to his work
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