Edgar Degas Gallery

Intimacy Monotype by Edgar Degas

In this painting the female figure clearly and irresistibly radiates an erotic voluptuousness that Degas art can also include. The picture's masquerade-like feel, its similarity to a stage wardrobe, defines the woman in relation to the waiting man, his gaze fixing her above the subtle sign of his cane. The space itself becomes an image of anticipated union, enfolding this relationship that has been brought about by socio-cultural coercion

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Portraits at the Stock Exchange, c.1878-79 (pastel on paper, pieced, and laid down

3469053 Portraits at the Stock Exchange, c.1878-79 (pastel on paper, pieced, and laid down on canvas) by Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); 72.1x58.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: This study for an oil painting showing the financier and collector Ernest May (1845a??1925) under the portico of the Paris stock exchange. ); French, out of copyright

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Portrait of the painter Tissot, 1867-8 (oil on canvas)

3432887 Portrait of the painter Tissot, 1867-8 (oil on canvas) by Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); 151.5x112 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The artist James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836a??1902) was Degas's friend and mentor and shared with him some tastes shown here:exotic Japanese, 16th-17th century Venetian and a portrait of Frederick the Wise formerly attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder, paying homage to Northern Renaissance art); French, out of copyright

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