Author: Loyrette, Henri
Title: Degas at the Opera
Description: Paris, France, Musees D'Orsay / National Gallery Of Art, 2019. Hardcover. pictorial & red boards w/ white printing. 326 pgs w/ primarily color illustrations, bw figures. English Text Edition. Beautifully illustrated. "This work was published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition presented at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris, from September 24, 2019 to January 19, 2020. Throughout his career, from the 1860s to his final works after 1900, Degas made the Opera the focal point of his work, his "own room". He explores the various spaces - auditorium and stage, dressing rooms, foyer, dance hall -, becomes attached to those who inhabit them, dancers, singers, musicians, spectators, subscribers in black clothes haunting the backstage. This closed universe is a microcosm with infinite possibilities and allows all experiments: multiplicity of points of view, contrast of lighting, study of movement and the truth of the gesture. No work until now had considered the Opera in its entirety in the work of Degas, studying all at once the passionate link he had with this house, his musical tastes, but also the infinite resources of this wonderful "toolbox". Through the prism of the Opera, Henri Loyrette, a great specialist in 19th century art, in particular Degas, redesigns a monograph of the man who was perhaps one of the greatest artists of the 19th century." --WorldCat, Translated. VG .

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