Degas once compared painting a picture to committing a crime. “Interior” was his great attempt at depicting the psychological proceeds of crime, in the coin of anguish and moral rot.

Degas became a painter in an extraordinary period and place. He was born in Paris in 1834, two years after Manet and during a decade that saw the birth of the painters Cézanne, ...

With Degas, I know I’m not alone: the austerity of his paintings borders on nastiness. (That they’ve decorated so many little girls’ bedrooms is one of art history’s tartest ironies.) ...

"Figure painting dominated his production, but throughout his career, [he was] also a landscape painter." “Edgar Degas: A Multimedia Artist in the Age of Impressionism," on view at The Clark through ...

A port, a garden, a mountain, a village, an island... These five places in France immortalised by the Impressionist and ...

Degas’s paintings date to 1873 and were done on a visit to New Orleans, where his mother was born and his family ran a lucrative business in the slavery-dependent cotton industry.

San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum devotes a show to the American artist, who took ideas from Picasso, ... Compare it with Degas’s “L’Absinthe” (1875-76), ...

Misty Copeland Re-creates Iconic Degas Paintings. Misty Copeland is more than one of the greatest ballet dancers in the world, now she’s quite literally a work of art. William Boot.