And, unusual among Impressionists, “There’s not a clear hierarchy between Degas’s oil and pastels,” he said. “Often oils are considered more permanent and solid, and more indicative of ...

ART AT HOME AND ABROAD; A Review of Notable Paintings in Oil and Pastel by Degas, Showing the Different Periods in the Notable Artist's Work---Exhibition of Paintings by Walker.

Starting Dec. 5, 80 pastel paintings can be seen at the St. Tammany Art Association in Covington as part of the Degas Pastel Society 18th biennial national exhibition.

Degas had a love for pastels Although his oil paintings dominate museum collections, the artist had a passion for pastels. “Pastel really was the single medium to which Degas was most attached, and he ...

The application of pastel is tighter and smoother than in any of the late pieces, and its color more or less conforms to what a contemporary of Degas might have seen in an actual ballet performance.

Tucked away beside a dry cleaners in a dark Paris courtyard, the firm that supplied Impressionist master Edgar Degas with the brilliant pastel colors used in some of his most famous pictures is ...

A new exhibit at the MFA, aptly named “French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault,” offers the rare chance to see pastel works by 10 artists including Jean-François Millet, Edgar Degas, and ...

While pastel would become Degas’s medium of choice, oil paint, photography, monotype and sculpture all feature in his oeuvre, the different approaches informing each other in a way that stands out as ...

The paint or pastel lines were looser, the colours bolder, particularly as his eyesight started fading in his seventies and oil on canvas became more laborious.

"Degas at Harvard," which runs through November 27, shows the Impressionist-era artist's work in a small, manageable space. The three-room exhibition is broken up by rough subject matters-- themes ...

An exhibition of 64 pastel works of art are now on view at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Pastels are fragile, and therefore a challenge to display. Above, Edgar Degas' Café-Concert ...