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

WSJ: Sotheby's Choppy Sale Buoyed by Casino Magnate's $41.5 Million Picasso

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

This show is rich with familiar masterpieces works by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat only this time we see them through the glass of fashion, with period gowns and accessories on view, some looking as if they drifted right out of a canvas.

WSJ: A Rustling Theater of the Self | Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Laura Jacobs