Degas's

But part of Degas's genius, as curator Jenny Reynaerts takes pains to show, was an ability to appreciate and synthesize styles that might seem, at first glance, completely incompatible.

One Master Mines Another Jonathan Lopez 2011

At this early date, Degas's draftsmanship lacked some of the freedom and authority it would later attain, and it therefore suffers somewhat in a direct comparison with Rembrandt.

One Master Mines Another Jonathan Lopez 2011

One captivating room of this generously installed exhibition is given over mostly to displays of their work and its effects on Degas's drawings and sculptures.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

Scott M. Black Collection/ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Delphi Management founder Scott Black has studiously built up one of the world's preeminent collections of French Impressionsim, which includes this 1895 oil, "Pagans and Degas's Father."

Inside Some of the World's Top Art Collections 2011

But none of Degas's biographers or contemporaries has suggested that he was anything but asexual.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

It might be difficult to buy the whole package on offer at this marvelous exhibition, but one thing is certain: having seen it, you'll never again see anything merely sweet about Degas's ballerinas.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

The stunning last room of these demonstrates Degas's late interest in highly saturated color; but almost all show him doing strange things with the picture space—crowding the girls and sometimes spectators or ballet-masters into tangled huddles in a corner of the canvas or paper.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

I found only one painting of more than passing interest in the two rooms before them — Degas's magical "Dancers Climbing the Stairs" (1886-90).

The Best and the Rest David Littlejohn 2010

Bequest of Henry K. Dick, Class of 1909, image Bruce M. White Edgar Degas's 'Dancers' circa 1899 So, the ballet pictures are not "about" a tableau of loveliness that ravished his senses, or sexual desire.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

Something else makes me wonder whether movement in itself was Degas's sole reason for being interested in the dance.

Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011