Edgar Degas

Paris 2 - Paris, France

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Adventures-With-A-Capital-A: Bachs Backpack Europe 2008

Impressive collection shows artists' impact

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Impressionism and Scotland **** National Gallery Complex, The Mound

• Impressive collection shows artists' impact - Edinburgh Evening News

First Ballerina Painting By Edgar Degas Now On View at VMFA

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008

RICHMOND, VA - French artist Edgar Degas’ first ballerina painting, the monumental “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet ‘La Source,’” is now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “Portrait of Mademoiselle Eugénie Fiocre in the Ballet ‘La Source’” will remain on view at VMFA through Nov. 2.

Celebrity Birthdays, July 19

Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

Happy Birthday to "ER" star Anthony Edwards (1962), Queen guitarist Brian May (1947), singer Vikki Carr (1941), animator/producer Max Fleischer (1883; d. 1972), and French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834; d. 1917).[...] Read more!

Sainsbury's gift of art is a national treasure

The blog art (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

Simon Sainsbury's offering of 18 paintings to the nation shows taste and a public spirit all too rare these days

Shelburne Museum hosts a Major Mary Cassatt Exhibit

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

SHELBURNE, VT - Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cassatt’s signature monumental mother-and-child works figure prominently in the exhibit. Little known family portraits...

First (and last) chance to see Sainsbury's bequest

The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

One of the most significant bequests to the nation in a century, including masterpieces by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, goes on public display from today.

Monet painting fetches $80 million at London auction

Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008

LONDON — A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.

Monet work fetches a record $80 million

LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008

LONDON -- A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold Tuesday for more than $80 million, nearly doubling the auction record for the French Impressionist artist, Christie's said."Water Lily Pond," which sold for $80,451,178, was part of a four-work set of water lily paintings that Monet put up for sale during his lifetime.The four large-scale paintings of Monet's water lily garden were signed and dated...

Monet Painting Fetches $80M At Auction

CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008

A water lily painting by impressionist master Claude Monet was sold for more than $80 million at auction Tuesday, kicking off a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn.

Dumb Impressionist Fact of the Day

Slog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

[Degas] felt a particular horror for the necks and shoulders of women past their prime. From Sue Roe's The Private Lives of Impressionists , a slightly trashy book I'm reading in honor of the SAM show . In the SAM show: Edgar Degas, Visit to a Museum (ca. 1879-90), oil on canvas, 36 1/8 by 26 3/4 inches, picturing Berthe Morisot and her sister at the Louvre

Baguettes & more baguettes-AKA: my life in Paris! - Paris, France

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008

Jump to the full entry & travel map Paris, France I have obviously been having the time of my life!  But its hard to keep updating the blog because so many new and exciting htis happen everyday, where to even begin?!  I like to think I am pretty organized (I hear people all over America laughing while reading that sentence but anywho...) so it might be easier if I put up a little day-by-day...

Enjoying Art by Claudia Sonea

Travel (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008

The annual Art Basel fair who will be held on Wednesday in Switzerland offer us the possibility to feast our eyes with all the beauties in contemporary paintings, drawings, sculpture, performances, installations and video [...]

Impressionist exhibit

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008

SAN FRANCISCO – Impressionist paintings by four women will be the focus of an exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco this summer.The exhibition, “Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, Marie Bracquemond,” will run June 21-Sept. 21.

Party Like ... Van Gogh :: That's Beijing blog

Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008

Experimentations with the Green Fairy by Diana Kuan I can't help but be fascinated by a drink nicknamed “the green fairy,” the tipple that made 19th century writers and artists go mad. A strong anise-flavored liquor made from wormwood extracts, absinthe was all the rage among creative geniuses like Oscar Wilde, Edgar Degas, and Vincent Van Gogh. Because of rumors that it contained hallucinogens, the...