From Edgar Degas - Dancer

This print features a famous drawing by the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas, a charcoal drawing originally from the Lehman Collection in New York, now held at the Metropolitan Museum. The work depicts Edgar Degas's favorite subject: the ballerina. Degas dedicated countless celebrated works to the world of ballet, a subject from which he sought the perfect blend of realism and movement that best showcased his Impressionist style. This print flawlessly reproduces a famous study in which the ballerina is captured in the unrepeatable moment of a complex movement.

From this charcoal study presented in this print, we can powerfully understand Edgar Degas's pictorial conception. He is, above all, a profoundly realist artist, uninterested in balanced compositions or an idealized vision of what lies before him. Indeed, his works are always distinguished by almost casual framing, which catches the subjects in unusual poses. We see this in this study, where the ballerina, captured in a fleeting and unrepeatable moment of an exercise, strikes an almost awkward pose. Everything, therefore, is movement, and the artist's desire to capture that moment on paper. This also gives rise to the formal quality of Degas's style, which, drawing on an en plein air conception of painting, transfers it to the subject of the ballerina. Thanks to the refined hatching, she thus becomes a vibrant, vibrant movement, quivering with life and almost elusive.

Edgar Degas was born in Paris in 1834 and died in 1917. He was an Impressionist painter who, of all the painters of that movement, retained the greatest originality and distance from the others. In 1862, he created his first painting, which made him famous: "The Bellelli Family," of exceptional realism and modernity. In the following years, he began to leave his bourgeois environment to frequent a café where he befriended Manet and the other painters who would form the Impressionist group. He was one of the group's founders and it was he who organized the exhibition at the photographer Nadar's; he participated in almost all eight subsequent Impressionist exhibitions. What distinguishes his paintings are always highly original perspective views. These views have been much discussed as being influenced by Japanese prints, although it is clear that his paintings have a typically photographic framing. Edgar Degas should be remembered as a great figure painter, who almost always painted interiors. His favorite subjects were figures in movement and he devoted much of his time to the direct study of classical ballet dancers.

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