degas, edgar

Describes the life and artistic achievements of the French painter and sculptor.

This book introduces the life and paintings of Edgar Degas, who is famous for his paintings of ballet dancers.

In 1874 Paris, painter Edgar Degas is struggling with debt after his father's death. He takes a job illustrating a small book on opera and becomes inspired by a young ballerina named Marie.

Profiles the sketches and drawings Edgar Degas made during the many hours he spent watching the ballet dancers at the Opera House in Paris, France.

A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opera ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer.".

Provides a simple introduction to French artist Edgar Degas and his pastel paintings of ballerinas.

Examines fifty paintings by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artist Edgar Degas, with an emphasis on their relation to the events of his life.