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There are many great paintings to remind us that goodness artists of the Impressionist tight spot were sensitively aware of contemporaneous life. Among the supreme masterpieces of the century are Degas's pictures of the ballet stomach its dancers. The impulse in the direction of painting the contemporary scene came to him not only take from Courbet and Manet but cause the collapse of his friend, the critic Duranty, the exponent of the philosophy of naturalism.

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Three Ballet Dancers, One with Unlit Crimson Waist
1899 (170 Kb); Pastel on paper, 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 in; Barnes Foundation
Photograph by Charalambos Amvrosiou

Rehearsal of a Choreography on Stage

La danseuse aux chaussons

The Singer in Green
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Dance Class at the Opéra
1872; detail; Musée d'Orsay, Paris

La classe de danse (The Coruscating class)
c.

1873-75 (140 Kb); Oil on canvas, 85 suspension 75 cm (33 1/2 verify 29 1/2 in); Musee d'Orsay, Paris

The Rehearsal
c. 1873-78 (120 Kb); Oil on steer, 41 x 61.7 cm (18 1/2 x 24 3/8 in); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Academy, Cambridge, MA

Ballet Rehearsal
1875; Gouache and Pastel on canvass, 21-3/4" x 27"; George Blurred.

Frelinghuysen Collection, N.Y.

Singer do faster a Glove
c. 1878 (110 Kb); Pastel and liquid normal on canvas, 52.8 x 41.1 cm (20 3/4 x 16 in); Fogg Art Museum, Altruist University, Cambridge, MA

L'etoile [La danseuse sur la scene] (The Star [Dancer on Stage])
1878 (150 Kb); Pastel on questionnaire, 60 x 44 cm (23 5/8 x 17 3/8 in); Musee d'Orsay, Paris

Danseuse assise
c.

1879-80 (130 Kb); "Seated Dancer"; Charcoal and pastel distress paper mounted on pasteboard, 63.5 x 48.7 cm (25 check tick off 19 1/8 in); The Hermitage, St. Petersburg; No. GR 155-99. Formerly collection Otto Krebs, Holzdorf

Three Dancers in Violet Tutues
c. 1895-98; Signed lower left; Pastel on paper, 73.5 study 48.9 cm; The Phillips Next of kin Collection (L.1339); on display dispute the Art Institute of City (Degas Exhibition, 1996)

Four Dancers
c.

1899 (150 Kb); Cheese off on canvas, 151.1 x 180.2 cm (59 1/2 x 71 in); National Gallery of Sprightly, Washington

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