EDGAR DEGAS

DANCERS RESTING, 1881-85

Tags: dance, ballet, figure studies, figures, women, impressionism, works on paper, people, 19th century, european art

About the Artwork

Beginning about 1870, Degas explored in his art the lives of dancers at the ballet of the Paris Opera - on stage, in rehearsal, and backstage in private moments. Here, the artist took his drawing of a seated dancer (at right) and added pieces of paper to create a larger composition, incorporating the figure of another dancer in a red shawl and the large expanse of floor in front of her. Degas left his notations - perhaps measurements of the added strips - visible at right.

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