Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was, and has remained, a somewhat paradoxical figure. After Seurat he is the least well known individual personality among the major Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Always seeming an aloof and very private man, self-absorbed, inclined to cynicism, he concealed his feelings behind a battery of often scornful wit. He was not what is usually thought of as a lovable man; and his art has its distinctly chilly side. But the response to visual facts was so fastidious and so acute, the mastery of design so vigorous and so sure, and the feeling for art, for what a work of art is about, so intense that Degas's work is among the most deeply satisfying artistic achievements of the nineteenth century, an age astonishingly rich in great painting.
The ballet, the race-course and women washing themselves were his favourite themes, but in this volume the selection of plates covers Degas's entire career, from the early academic paintings and family portraits to the late pastels, done towards the end of his life when his eyesight began to fail.
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