Degas Invents a New World

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Last chance! "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty" closes tomorrow! The New York Times calls it a "thrillingly intimate" look at "the modern Degas you haven't seen."

Have you seen the exhibition? Did it make you consider Degas in a new light?

[Edgar Degas. "Forest in the Mountains (Forêt dans la montagne)," c. 1890. Monotype in oil on paper. Plate: 11 13/16 x 15 3/4″ (30 x 40 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Louise Reinhardt Smith Bequest]

Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty | MoMA

The exhibition includes approximately 120 rarely seen monotypes—along with some 60 related paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks, and prints—that show Degas at his most modern.

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The New York Review of Books

Degas “exhibited with the Impressionists but he didn’t consider himself a member of the group, if for no other reason than that he violently rejected the very idea of painting outdoors,” writes Anka Muhlstein in her review of an exhibition of his work, now at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art.

Degas Invents a New World

Degas was a loner. He had always felt alone. Alone because of his character, alone because of his unyielding principles, alone because of his severe judgments. He exhibited with the Impressionists but he didn’t consider…

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