Among the casualties were examples by Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Pougny and Egon Schiele.

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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.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Searle drug fortune, bought the ethereal Edgar Degas pastel "Landscape with Smokestacks, " a view across a windswept countryside, in 1987.

FORBES: Hey, that's my picture on your wall

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.

ECONOMIST: The long perspectives of Gustave and Martial Caillebotte