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        <h1>Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (1834-1917)</h1>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">We Perform Edgar Degas art authentication. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/appraisal/painting-appraisal.php">Edgar Degas appraisal</a>. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/certificate-of-authenticity.php">Edgar Degas certificates of authenticity (COA)</a>.  Edgar Degas analysis, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/provenance-research.php">research</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/scientific-tests.php">scientific tests</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication.php">full art authentications</a>. We will help you sell your Edgar Degas or we will sell it for you.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_TheStar.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Star</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Edgar Degas is generally thought of as one of the greatest French artists to have ever lived, though his mother was American and he spent a great deal of his life in the United States. This great artist was originally expected to study law, but gave up his formal education at the age of 20 to pursue the arts. In 1856 he left for Italy to study the works of the old master of the Renaissance, and also copied works from the Louvre that same year.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasPromenadeBesideTheSea.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Promenade by the Sea, Bay of Naples 1860</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">It is quite possible that some of his sketches from this time could surface in Florence, Venice or Naples and would probably look like this:</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasStudyofGentileBellini.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Study of Gentle Bellini 1865</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">After he returned from Italy, Degas painted mostly portraits and pictures with historical subjects. These works are entirely different than what most people associate him with.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasYoungSpartansExercising.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Young Spartans Exercising</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Degas also created landscapes that were quite bland in comparison to his other works, which may cause an art researcher or authenticator to overlook it as a Degas.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasBeach.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Beach and Dunes</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">For the next few years, Degas showed his works frequently at the salons until he was called to fight in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. During that time he had very few chances to paint. After the war, Degas traveled to New Orleans to visit his brother Rene where he stayed and painted portraits of his relatives until 1873.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_PortraitOfTheArtistsGrandfather.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of the Artists Grandfather</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_PortraitOfTheArtistsSister.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of the Artists Sister</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">During this time, he also painted a scene of the office in his family’s cotton company.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasTheCottonExchange.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Cotton Exchange in New Orleans</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Degas work while in New Orleans is perhaps the least known of his oeuvre, and the exciting possibility exists that some of his sketches or paintings could show up somewhere in Louisiana.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_TheSufferingOfTheCityOfNewOrleans.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Suffering of the City of New Orleans 1865</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Upon his return to Paris, Degas resumed exhibiting his work in the salons, often showing alongside his friend and “rival” painter Edouard Manet. The two shared similar styles and interests and often painted similar subjects like Parisian life.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_TheAbsintheDrinker.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Absinthe Drinker</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Of course, when people think of Degas, they have ballerinas in mind, or perhaps women drying up after a bath.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_DanceClass.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Dance Class 1871</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_DanceClass1874.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Dance Class 1874</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_DancersInTheOldOperaHouse.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Dancers in the Old Opera House</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In reality Degas cared more about race horses than he did about ballerinas and women pulling up their stockings. A survey of all his works from 1860 to 1900 shows that he worked 91 times on a composition involving horses; far more than he worked on any other subject. If you consider his sculpture production, horses win by several lengths.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_RaceHorses.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Race Horses</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_TheRacesBeforeTheStart.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Races Before the Start</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_RaceHorses,pastel.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Race Horses Pastel</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Sadly, the death of Degas father brought him into financial ruin in his later years. He was forced to sell much of his art collection to pay off his fathers’ debts and could scarcely get by on his art commissions towards the end of his career.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasTheDukeandDuchessMorbilli.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The Duke and Dutchess Morbilli</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Edgar Degas was a master, a giant really, in the entire world history of painting. Ask any art scholar to pick the top 25 painters of all time and Degas will almost always be included. The fact that he has not sold any works for as much as Claude Monet or Pierre-Auguste Renoir is not due to his lack of immense superiority. Rather, it is because it takes a deeper, more advanced understanding of art, to appreciate him. Discerning museum curators have long acquired most of his major and secondary works; therefore it leaves fewer in the marketplace. However, even some of his more prominent works, such as “Ballet Scene” have disappeared and their whereabouts are unknown.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_BalletScene.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Ballet Scene 1880</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">But a new Degas discovery may not be a pastel, oil, or a drawing. It could even come in a seemingly unexpected form.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasPhoto1.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Nude Putting on Stockings</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasPhoto2.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Louise Reading</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/DegasPhoto3.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Woman Drying</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Yes, these are photographs, by Edgar Degas the photographer. Of course they are very valuable. We only have some 50 of them right now. Could these have been studies for some of his more famous nudes and portraits?</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_NudeWipingHerFoot.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Nude wiping her foot</div>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_WomanCompbingHerHair.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Woman combing her hair</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In 1895, at sixty-one years of age, in spite of failing eyesight, Degas took up photography. His photos were never exhibited in his lifetime and very little ever since. Few people even know Degas was ever a photographer. Do we have all of them? Probably not.</p>
      <p align="center" class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/degas/Degas_BlueDancers.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" border="0"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Blue Dancers</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Degas was a prolific artist and it is not likely that every single painting, sketch or sculpture that he ever created is accounted for or destroyed. Could that French painting hanging in your family estate be a genuine Degas? <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/contact/contact1.php">Contact us</a> to find out.</p>
     
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