Edgar Degas
French | 1834 - 1917
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1834. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Musée d'Orsay in Paris and will be on exhibit at Musée d'Orsay in Paris on April 26, 2024. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Getty Center have featured Edgar Degas's work in the past.Edgar Degas's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 41,610,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 41,610,000 USD for Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, sold at Christie's New York in 2022. Edgar Degas has been featured in articles for Christie's Daily, The New York Times and The Seattle Times. The most recent article is Norton Museum of Art Receives Major Promised Gift of Nearly 700 Works on Paper from Collector Jonathan 'Jack' Frost written for ArtDaily in April 2024. The artist died in 1917.
Artist's alternative names: Edgar Degas, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
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It might seem like gilding the lily to devote a two-part exhibition to a single historic event, and yet the result, “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” is a revelation.
Norton Museum of Art Receives Major Promised Gift of Nearly 700 Works on Paper from Collector Jonathan 'Jack' Frost
ArtDaily 10/04/2024The Norton Museum of Art has received a transformative promised gift of almost 700 prints from the last 500 years from longtime Norton supporter Jonathan “Jack” Frost, featuring European and American printmakers...
150 Years of Impressionism at the Musée d’Orsay: ‘We Hope to Get Across How Radical These Artists Were’
Christie's Daily 28/03/2024Anne Robbins, the co-curator of Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism — which is on show in Paris before travelling to Washington, D.C., in September — ...
