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 ...

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the ...

Celestine Musson, the mother of the great French impressionist painter Edgar Degas, was born in New Orleans. And thereby hangs a tale. In France Celestine married a banker, Auguste De Gas (he favored ...

In April 1881, Edgar Degas exhibited a new sculpture at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. The sculpture, which the artist titled Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, and which was modelled on a young ...

A new exhibition promises to change the way we see the late work of Edgar Degas. On view through next January 5, the oil paintings, pastels, charcoal studies and sculptures in "Degas: Beyond ...