Degas

This monograph provides an illustrated survey of the 19th-century Paris-based Impressionist, known most extensively for his renderings of the ballet and ballet dancers, but whose oeuvre is loaded with other subject matter - portraits, racecourse scenes, cafes, and nightclubs. A lifetime spent looking at women produced consummate compositions, whether of work in the laundry, in millinery shops, onstage, or in the privacy of the morning bath. Degas's sense of color andmovement of figures in space helped to open up the realm of the canvas in this formidable & innovative era of art-making. Addenda. 67 illus., 40 plates in full color. 128p.