The Royal Academy of Arts in London is to hold a landmark exhibition featuring the work of Edgar Degas.
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement will focus on the artist’s preoccupation with movement. It will include around 85 paintings, sculptures, pastels, drawings, prints and photographs by Degas, as well as photographs by his contemporaries and examples of early film.
The exhibition will explore the links between Degas’ original way of viewing and recording dance and the inventive experiments being made at the same time in photography by Jules-Etienne Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, and in film-making by such pioneers as the Lumière brothers.
Highlights of the exhibition will include Dancer Posing for a Photograph, Dancer on Pointe, The Dance Lesson, Three Dancers and the celebrated sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, which will be displayed with a group of preparatory drawings that together show the artist tracking around his subject like a film camera.
Degas was born in Paris in 1834. His father was a banker from a Neapolitan family and his mother a French Créole from New Orleans. Edgar studied briefly in Paris, travelled to Italy and around 1870 began to concentrate on subjects from modern life, including the dance. His principal subjects were dancers, racehorses and bathing women. He died in Montmartre in 1917.
Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement will be at the Royal Academy from 17 September to 11 December, admission £14 adults, £4 children 12–18, £3 children 8–11, 7 and under free.
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