Degas and New Orleans : a French impressionist in America
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Degas and New Orleans : a French impressionist in America
New Orleans Museum of Art, in conjunction with Ordrupgaard , Distributed by Rizzoli International, c1999
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A French impressionist in America
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Catalogue of exhibitions held at New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, May 1-Aug. 29, 1999; Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Sept. 16-Nov. 28, 1999
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301)
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ISBN 9780894940729
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A fascinating account of Edgar Degas's 1872 visit to New Orleans, the only time a French Impressionist visited the United States, offers color and black-and-white illustrations that capture the unique connection that existed between the cultures of France and Louisiana.
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: pbk ISBN 9780894940736
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Edgar Degas is admired today as the quintessential artist of Paris: painter of ballet dancers, bathers, and laundresses, of the racetrack and the theater. Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America explores a different Degas in another place: a sojourner with his family in New Orleans, on the unique occasion when the subtlest and most advanced ideas of French painting alighted on the banks of the Mississippi River. Degas and New Orleans accompanies a major exhibition that reassembles most of the fascinating art that Degas created during his visit and places this work in its remarkable context of family drama and American history. In addition to the works generally believed to have been executed by Degas in New Orleans, the book includes paintings, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture done in Europe that reflect Degas's relationship to the city and that are specifically related in theme or style, or are very close in date. Finally, to help clarify its character, the New Orleans work is complemented by a selection of Degas's typical subjects, such as dancers and racetracks. Family letters, documents, heirlooms, and vintage photographs from the period help to summon forth the context of the sole visit to America by a French Impressionist.
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