. International studio. DANSEUSEs FAN- MOUNT, GOUACHE ON SILK) {From the Eden Collection) BY H. G. E. DEGAS than making bare mention of those other scenes realism, the interiors of cafes and cafes- of modern life which formed the subject of his concerts and circuses, and the innumerable suc- studies. Notable among these are the Blanchis- cession of paintings, pastels and accentuated seuses scenes, so audacious and so striking in their drawings (rehausses) in which, with prodigious. PREMIERE DANSEUSE (PASTEL AND GOUACHE) [From the Eden Collection) BY H. G. E, DEGAS]133 Edgar Degas alertness of
. International studio. DANSEUSEs FAN- MOUNT, GOUACHE ON SILK) {From the Eden Collection) BY H. G. E. DEGAS than making bare mention of those other scenes realism, the interiors of cafes and cafes- of modern life which formed the subject of his concerts and circuses, and the innumerable suc- studies. Notable among these are the Blanchis- cession of paintings, pastels and accentuated seuses scenes, so audacious and so striking in their drawings (rehausses) in which, with prodigious. PREMIERE DANSEUSE (PASTEL AND GOUACHE) [From the Eden Collection) BY H. G. E, DEGAS]133 Edgar Degas alertness of brush or pencil, with marvellousexpressiveness, he has caught by surprise, inall their intimacy, the attitudes, the gestures,the movements of modern Woman at her , perfect things, of infinite variety andrichness, all aquiver with life, and recallingat times certain of the masterpieces of thegreatest Japanese artists. From the technicalpoint of view they are real tours deforce, the fore-shortening in some cases being of such prodigiousskill as to make one of opinion that nobody inthe whole history of art can have been hissuperior in this respect. Degas, of course, was very far from being animaginative artist; truth to tell, imaginationwas the one gift he most conspicuously we blame him on that account ? YSTiowould dare to do so without committing an in-justice ? As well might one reproach Watteaubecause he did not look on nature and on fifewith t
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