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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline...
5) Edgar Degas
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century artist, known as one of the French Impressionists.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her...
8) Edgar Degas
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Introduces Edgar Degas as one of the greatest Impressionist artists by exploring the multiple techniques he used to create oil paintings, pastel drawings, and sculptures.
12) Edgar Degas
Author
Series
Publisher
Gramercy Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of Edgar Degas accompanies more than forty color reproductions and critical interpretations of his works.
16) Edgar Degas
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Outpost19
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after Edgar Degas 1872 visit to New Orleans, a lost sketchbook surfaces. His Creole cousin Tell -- who lost her sight as a young woman -- listens as her former child-servant describes the drawings and reads Degas enigmatic words. Its both cryptic and revelatory, leading Tell to new understandings of her marriage, her difficult, brilliant cousin Edgar, her daughter Josephine, and herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Through Edgar Degas's beloved paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Susan Goldman Rubin conveys the wonder and excitement of the ballet world. Degas is one of the most celebrated painters of the impressionist movement, and his ballerina paintings are among the most favorite of his fans. In his artwork, Degas captures every moment, from the relentless hours of practice to the glamour of appearing on stage, revealing a dancer's journey from novice to...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How many of us can connect the dots of influences and inspiration...
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