Degas

The Dancing Class ~ 1876

Collection Harry Payne Bingham, New York

Sunday afternoon, I discovered this beautiful portfolio of sixteen full color Degas prints at SuzAnna's Antiques for just $12.

The Dancing Class ~ 1880

Denver Art Museum, Colorado

Known as the painter of ballet subjects, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas (1834~1917) was far more than that. He was a portraitist of great distinction, a draftsman and one of the most exciting sculptors of his century.

A Dancer at the Age of Fourteen (bronze, 1880)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Tub ~ 1886

The Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Degas seldom personified women in the intimate confines of their boudoirs, their faces were often hidden by the poses he caught them in with often just a cheek line, an ear, a slight indication of profile.

I think this print will hang in my bathroom, perhaps framed later. The colors are beautiful.