Degas could identify, she said. The artist grew up as the son of a wealthy banker, but he gravitated to laundresses as a subject after the deaths of his father and uncle in the mid-1870s exposed ...

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.) ...

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.

"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 ...

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), ...

Degas, painting the rising bourgeoisie at the races, would give it a culture to match. Image. Their show was not a runaway success. Only 3,500 people bought tickets.

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.