PARIS (Reuters Life!) - 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 ...

Later Degas adopted pastel as a favorite medium for the sake of its double usefulness, permitting a chalk line in black and white, and permitting also the rapid inner modeling in color which he ...

Ask Alan Flattmann about soft pastels and the Covington artist’s enthusiasm and extensive knowledge of the medium is immediately evident. There’s a vibrancy to them “that’s unrivaled,” said Flattmann, ...

Dancers on a Bench', about 1898, Pastel on tracing paper Glasgow Museums: Art Gallery & Museums, Kelvingrove. All images © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection Of the ...

Many people may think of pastels as a medium for kids in art class. But at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the "Touch of Color" exhibition celebrates the history of pastel from the ...

For the artist whose name immediately brings to mind images of ballerinas, the new "Degas at Harvard" show at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum demonstrates the breadth of Edgar Degas' career. "Degas ...

Seventy-nine years after his death, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas has achieved the status he said he wanted, being both “illustrious and unknown.” He is one of the most famous artists of the 19th ...

French impressionist Edgar Degas’s Danseuse rose and Femme sortant du bain, representing the artist’s two favorite themes, dancers at rest and women bathing, will be offered at Christie’s 20th and ...

After years in the dark, nearly 40 French pastels are emerging from their vault to take a turn in the spotlight. A new exhibit at the MFA, aptly named “French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault,” ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Think of the perfect Impressionist image and chances are that it would be either one of Edgar Degas's pictures of ballerinas or a ...