Material: Ceramic
Height: 23,5 cm, Width: 10,5 cm, Depth: 7,5 cm
Nicely packed in a gift box
Design: Parastone Ateliers for John Beswick
Museum Vase based on a work by Edgar Degas
Danseuse sur Scene (1877)
Degas developed an interest in ballet at an early age and in 1872 he made his first studies of ballet dances. He avoided the true drama, the perfomance itself. Like he pictured the world of the horseracer before and after the race, he showed what happened behind the scenes in the ballet world of L’Opera. He chose subtile, apparently random composition and painted them with an unexpected approach.
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
The course of life of the Parisian painter had few dramatic peals. Being the eldest son of a well-to-do family the cynical, snobby loner was able to devote his life to the arts. Furthermore, he remained a bachelor. Because: ‘There is love and there is work, and we only have one heart’.
His classical education can be recognized in his earlier work, in particular the strict compoisition and lining inspired by Ingres, whom he greatly admired. Degas took a special position within the group of artists led by his friend Monet, who regularly got together in the ‘Cafe Guerbois’. His cynism and sharp tongue however, made him difficult in company and many ideas from Zola, Renoir and Monar did not appeal to him. Also he referred to himself as an ‘independent realist’, he was very much involved in the impressionistic revolution and the themes and techniques developed in his works are considered to have formed te synthesis between the traditional and modern art of painting.
In 1874, together with Monet, he organized the first exhibition of the ‘independents’, which was named ‘the impressionists’ by a critic.
