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DEGAS AND THE BALLET
A FANTASY AND AN OBSESSION?
Edgar Degas, Blue Dancers, c. 1898, pastel on paper, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
A painting requires some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning plain, you end up boring people.
Quote of Edgar Degas*
Why was French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) so obsessed with the ballet, a theme he depicted almost 40 years?
*From Memories of Degas by Georges Jeanniot
