Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

Degas, who only exhibited one sculpture in his lifetime, modelled four sculptures in wax sometime between 1900 and 1912. The NGV’s sculpture is the second in that series and was cast in bronze ...

Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement opens on Saturday at the Royal Academy. Standard adult tickets £14, RA Friends free. Until 11 December 2011.

Degas’s pictures of ballerinas performing onstage convey exquisitely what makes ballet ballet—all that balance, grace and radiance that a contemporary critic called “mimed poetry, dream made ...

Almost from the beginning of the Royal Academy's "Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement," the curators look at a darker side of the French artist and add a splash of acerbity to the sweetness.

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- "The Ballet Rehearsal," "The Little Girl in the Blue Arm Chair," Edward Degas and Mary Cassatt were responsible for some of the most iconic pieces in the world. They were ...

Edgar Degas was tired of picturing dancers. For two decades he had sketched performers all over the Paris Opera Ballet, from classroom to staircase to wings. He had cheered their successes onstage ...

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, one of Edgar Degas' most famous works, is to be sold at auction. Petite danseuse de quatorze ans has been estimated by experts at Sotheby's to fetch £10m - 15m on 24 ...

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Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.