The private collection of Edgar Degas /
When Edgar Degas died in 1917, his enormous art collection, consisting of several thousand paintings, drawings, and prints, came to light. This remarkable assemblage included great numbers of works by the French nineteenth-century masters whom Degas revered - Delacroix, Ingres, and Daumier - and at...
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New York :
Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams,
c1997
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., ©1997 New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; dist. Abrams, c1997 New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997 New York : 1997 |
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Table of Contents:
- The Artist-Collector Degas and His Collection / Ann Dumas. Degas's Devices / Gary Tinterow. Degas and the Collecting Milieu / Ann Dumas
- Artist to Artist. "Three Great Draftsmen": Ingres, Delacroix, and Daumier / Theodore Reff. Manet and Degas: A Never-Ending Dialogue / Mari Kalman Meller and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. Degas and Cezanne: Savagery and Refinement / Richard Kendall. Degas and Gauguin / Francoise Cachin. A Printmaking Encounter / Barbara Stern Shapiro. Degas, Japanese Prints, and Japonisme / Colta Ives
- The Dispersal. Behind the Scenes: Durand-Ruel and the Degas Sales / Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy. The Metropolitan Museum's Purchases from the Degas Sales: New Acquisitions and Lost Opportunities / Susan Alyson Stein. "The Most Talked-about Sale of the Season": Critical Reaction to the Degas Collection Sales / Rebecca A. Rabinow. The Degas Collection Sales and the Press: Selected Reviews and Articles / Rebecca A. Rabinow.