Edgar Degas.
Portrait of Marguerite de Gas, the Artist's Sister. 1858-1860. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
Degas (or de Gas), French painter and sculptor who died on 26 September 1917. — {Il faisait des Degas, PAS des dégas, et pas des “gars Dédé”.}— Born Hilaire Germain Edgar de Ga. Father was a prominent banker. His father and grandfather signed their names “De Gas”, as did the artist until ca. 1870. He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and briefly at law school but was most interested in becoming an artist; in 1853 he began to copy at the Louvre. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1855 and from 1856 to 1859 lived in Italy, studying the old masters and working from the model. In Italy again in 1860, he started his first great painting, W?#>The Bellelli Family (1862; 849x1066pix). His early work was mainly portraiture and large classical compositions, and he contributed regularly to the Salon from 1865 to 1870. His first sculptures date from the mid-sixties. In 1872-1873, Degas visited New Orleans to see his brother, René, who was in the cotton trade there. It was during this time that Degas produced Cotton Office, New Orleans. In 1876, René became insolvent and it was Edgar who sacrificed his own personal fortune to assume the responsibility of his brothers debts. Degas was to feel this burden until 1883.
in Olga's gallery
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