Five Rapid Sketches

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Five Rapid Sketches

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Edgar Degas

French Photographer · 1834–1917

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> No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament . . . I know nothing. > > --Edgar Germaine Hilaire Degas From a wealthy Parisian family, Degas devoted himself exclusively to painting without needing to sell a canvas. His training was conventional: he spent five years in Italy, studied the O

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Edgar Degas frequently used his sketchbook to work out new ideas for various paintings or lithographs. In this group of five quick sketches, he concentrated on the gestures and expressions of a singer at a *café-concert* , several of which he later re-used. In the upper left corner, the café singer who leans forward, her mouth open in full song, closely resembles a pastel and lithograph known as *Mlle Bécat aux Ambassadeurs.* At the lower left, Degas showed another vocalist in profile, reaching out towards an imaginary audience with both her arm and body. This figure appears again in the pastel *Le Café Concert des Ambassadeurs.* The back of both another singer and a man with a high collar fill the upper right corner, while a woman bows in the lower right corner. A contemporary once described Degas as "an artist of rare intelligence, preoccupied with ideas which seemed strange to the majority of his fellows. Taking advantage of the fact that there was no method and transition in his brain, which was active and always boiling over, they called him the inventor of social chiaroscuro."

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Artist/Maker
Edgar Degas
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108E16
Date
about 1877
Medium
Graphite
Culture
French
Object Type
Drawing

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Object ID
8ac9ecf7-31f8-495e-b3fb-b8c4b7cbb315
Object Type
Drawing
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Creator
Edgar Degas
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Culture
French
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Medium
Graphite
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Department
Drawings
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
about 1877
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Begin Year
1877
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1877
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