Art Institute of Chicago
Two Dancers
Edgar DegasLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf4856169bdb
- Date
- c. 1893–98
- Medium
- Pastel and charcoal, with stumping and burnishing, on tracing paper, pieced and laid down on cardboard
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 45243
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Edgar Degas recorded ballet dancers at rest and in motion in a variety of media, producing numerous drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures. The subject enabled Degas to study the movement of the human form and the contortions of the body. In this pastel, the performers wait behind the curtains, in the wings of the stage, and bend at the waist, arms akimbo, in preparation for their next appearance.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Col. Robert R. McCormick to the Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Estate of the artist; sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 4-5, 1918, first Degas estate sale, lot 129. Trotti, Paris [Lemoisne 1946]. Durand-Ruel, New York [Lemoisne 1946]. Amy McCormick (1880-1939), Chicago, by 1932 [Smith 1997]; by descent to her husband, Col. Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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