From family portraits to absinthe drinkers, racehorses to circus performers, Edgar Degas depicted many subjects in his pieces, but his most prolific output was paintings of young Parisian ballerinas.

In 1891, an exhibition titled A Small Collection of Works by Degas and Others opened in London, before travelling up to Glasgow. It was organised by the Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid, who had ...

The watercolor medium is probably the most difficult form of graphic art to master. To a woman who once asked Edgar Degas what sort of watercolor set she should buy her son, Degas replied that it ...

The Glyptotek is among only four museums in the world to possess a complete set of Degas’ sculptures, which were all cast posthumously in the early 1920s, after the artist’s death in 1917. This ...

In 1872, tired and weary from fighting in the Franco-Prussian War; dealing with failing eyesight and depressed after losing his best friend and the love of his life, artist Edgar Degas took a break to ...