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Lives of Edgar Degas
- Pallas Athene
- Series: Lives of The Artists
- by George Moore, Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins
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Publisher | Pallas Athene |
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ISBN | 9781843681748 |
Author(s) | by George Moore, Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins |
Publication date | April 2023 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 145 x 114 mm |
Illustrations | 40 col.ill. |
Pages | 112 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
Exhibition | Series: Lives of The Artists |
Description
Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died, Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert's essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is amongst the best of his writings.
Together, these memoirs represent some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English - as well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important and most influential - and the most humane - of the painters of the later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins and are illustrated with 30 pages of colour plates covering the span of Degas's dazzling career.
Lives of Edgar Degas