French impressionist Edgar Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime: “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But he loved sculpting in the privacy of his studio. In honor of the centenary of Degas’ ...

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The only sculpture that French painter Edgar Degas ever shared with the public sparked an immediate outrage. Degas debuted his true-to-life amalgamation of beeswax, human hair, and more, depicting his ...

Reporting from Washington — In 1877, when he was 43, the French impressionist Edgar Degas began stopping by the studio of the 33-year-old American Mary Cassatt and offering her a point or two that ...

In 1875, Mary Cassatt was strolling along Boulevard Haussmann when a pastel drawing in a shop window caught her attention. “It changed my life,” the American expatriate would later say. “I saw art ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The National Gallery’s imaginatively choreographed Degas & Miss La La is a triple delight: it tells the story ...

The Impressionist master has enchanted generations of art lovers, but a painting being offered at TEFAF in Maastricht enters a market that has its own rules. By Ted Loos Getting carried away while ...

The fundamentals of ballet haven’t changed all that much since its invention in 15th-century Italy. Yet the popular image of this deeply traditional medium has been largely defined by the talents of ...

Timothy Martin, a climate activist who smeared paint on a glass vitrine protecting an Edgar Degas sculpture in 2023, was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week. Martin had been found guilty of ...