Works by Renoir, Degas, Monet and Edvard Munch and a sculpture by Modigliani were also sold.
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Unfortunately for painters down through the centuries, the world is full of art patrons like Monsieur Degas'.
Among the casualties were examples by Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Pougny and Egon Schiele.
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They found seven paintings and twenty-one drawings counterfeited by Malskat, including forgeries of Matisse, Degas, Chagall, and Beckmann.
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Edgar Degas carried on a jealous cross-Channel frame-designing rivalry with James McNeill Whistler, and took the matter very seriously indeed.
Searle drug fortune, bought the ethereal Edgar Degas pastel "Landscape with Smokestacks, " a view across a windswept countryside, in 1987.
The Corot will go to the National Gallery while three Degas sculptures will be shown at The Courtauld Gallery.
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That Goya had chosen him did not surprise Keating any more than he was amazed to have been enlisted by Degas.
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Also in the show, paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cassatt, Gauguin, Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso demonstrate the spells that Degas cast on younger artists.
Degas showed with the Impressionists but he rejected the label for himself.
Degas was addicted to views, usually from behind, of women in oblivious, intimate actions, such as bathing, drying themselves, or combing their hair.
Their focus has shifted from catching the thieves to bringing home the precious artwork, which includes paintings by Rembrandt, Manet, Degas and Vermeer.
The two other stolen paintings, Degas's Count Lepic and his Daughters (1871) and Cezanne's Boy in a Red Jacket (1888), are still missing.
The estate of British painter Lucian Freud has bequeathed works by Corot and Degas to the nation, under the government's acceptance in lieu scheme.
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They were sold to a few private collectors Degas among them who appreciated their mix of compassion and outrageous observation, and their richly expressive use of line.
Degas's painting "Absinthe" (1875-76) or Van Gogh's "Corner in Montmartre" (1887) depict the territory and atmosphere of 19th-century Bohemia in Paris in oil on canvas.
An 1883 profile portrait of Henri Cordier, an eminent Sinologist, writing in his study surrounded by books and papers reveals a touch of Edgar Degas.
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As Degas had done, Goya enlisted him to create a self-portrait.
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His recently purchased apartment in Manhattan, where he and his wife of 41 years spend much of their time, displays originals by Matisse, Carrier-Belleuse, Degas and Gauguin.
The Nazis took possession of paintings by classic artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Rembrandt, as well as more recent painters like Renoir, Degas or Picasso.
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At the time that story was published, Rosenberg owned at least 89 works worthy of a gallery show, including 43 Picassos and paintings by Degas, Seurat and Renoir.
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His shares in Syntex, which prospered in the 1960s and 1970s, bankrolled a personal gallery which once included at least eight Picassos, half a dozen Giacomettis and three Degas.
Taylor was also an uncanny art collector who bought paintings by Picasso, Degas, Monet, van Gogh and many others this before the 1980s art bubble that sent art prices skyrocketing.
Also pilfered were works by Rembrandt, Manet and Degas.
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At one point Degas was said to have ripped a patron's Degas painting off the wall and attempted to repossess it when he found that the man had changed the Degas frame.
Our understanding of "Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando" is further enriched by documentation of what is known about Degas's protagonist and her sensational performances: photographs, posters, programs and illustrated books.
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Equally informative (but not as vivid) are the Brooklyn Museum's facsimiles of unbound sketchbooks by artists from several periods, including Degas's more conservative near-contemporary Chase as he drew portraits of his friends and colleagues.
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Parisians can be buried alongside Berlioz, Degas and Nijinsky in the cemetery at Montmartre, which was dug out of an old chalk quarry that had been used as a communal grave during the French Revolution.
At the Frick, thanks mainly to Sterling Clark's perspicacity in buying in some depth from the auctions of Degas's work held soon after his death Clark apparently wished he'd bought more we can follow this enigmatic artist's evolution.
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It makes perfect sense that Degas attended her debut engagement, as a connoisseur of spectacle, a regular at the opera, the music hall, the cafe concert and the racetrack, according to the evidence of his work.
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