Your Online Antiques University               Edgar Degas ( French 1834-1917) is acknowledged as the master of drawing the human figure in motion. Degas worked in many mediums, preferring pastel to all others. He is perhaps best known for his paintings, drawings, and bronzes of ballerinas and of race horses. The ballerina was a subject he returned to many times from the 1870’s onwards. This particular piece is an etching, one of 26 hors-text etchings after Edgar Degas drawings about dance and dancers included in Paul Valéry’s (1875-1945) book “Degas Danse Dessin” published as a limited first edition book run of 305 copies in 1936 by Ambroise Vollard (Paris) Mike Wilcox Wilcox & Hall Appraisers  Copyright Wilcox & Hall Online- 19972006 All Rights Reserved

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