O pedicure edgar degas biography

  • [2] Although we do not know definitively whether Degas himself titled the painting, it has been called Le Pédicure at least since 1899, when Henry O. Havemeyer.
  • 'The Pedicure' was created in 1873 by Edgar Degas in Impressionism style.
  • Edgar Degas is one of the most celebrated artists associated with French Impressionism.

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    Portrait of Rene De Gas. The Artist Brother 1855; 38x32cm oil/canvas; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USAPortrait of Rene De Gas 1855; 92x75cm oil/canvas; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USASelf Portrait 1855; 81x65cm oil/canvas; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, FranceStudy for the Self Portrait 1855; 29x21cm charcoal/pencil; Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, ProvidenceStudy of Gentile Bellini 1855; 21x29cm charcoal/pencil; Private collectionSelf-Portrait 1855; 40x34cm oil/canvas; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York CityDegas in a Green Jacket 1856; oil/canvas; Private Collection Head of a Young Roman Girl 1856; 37x25cm charcoal/pencil/stump; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USAPortrait of an Italian 1856; 38x26cm charcoal/paper; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USARené de Gas 1855; 29x22cm oil/panel; Private collection Candaule's Wife 1855-1856; 29x22cm oil/canvas; Private collection

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    Parsing Edgar Degas’s Le Pédicure


    Marni Reva Kessler is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet’s Paris (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006) as well as articles and book chapters on Manet, Degas, Caillebotte, fashion, and Haussmann’s Paris. She fryst vatten currently at work on a book that examines the representation of food and its intersections with constructions of family, memory, and identity in late nineteenth-century French visual culture.

    Email the author mrk[at]ku.edu

    by Marni Reva Kessler

    Fig. 1, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Le Pédicure, 1873. Essence on paper mounted on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photograph courtesy of Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

    The silvery wink of the instrument wielded bygd the male figure in Edgar Degas’s Le Pédicure of 1873 (fig. 1) draws our eye to the focus of the painting, to the place w

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    Exhibition dates: 24th June – 18th September 2016

     

     

    Installation view of the exhibition Degas: A New Vision at the National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne with at right, Female nude
    Photo: © Marcus Bunyan and the National Gallery of Victoria

     

     

    A magnificent exhibition of the work of Edgar Degas at NGV International. So nice to see a blockbuster without papered walls or patterned floors, an exhibition that just allows the work to speak for itself. Review to follow in part 2 of the posting.

    “Il y a quelque chose plus terrible encore que le bourgeois – c’est l’homme qui nous singe [There’s something even more awful than the bourgeois – it’s the man who apes us]”

    Edgar Degas as noted down by Oscar Wilde when he met him in 1883.

    Dr Marcus Bunyan


    Many thankx to the National Gallery of Victoria for allowing me to publish the artwork and photographs in the posting. All installation photographs

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