Edgar Degas Archives - How to Pastel

Seeing art in the real-Edgar Degas, "Woman at Her Toilet," c.1894, charcoal and pastel on paper, 95.6 x 109.9 cm, Tate Britain, London, England - as I saw it

Seeing Art In The Real vs Online – Does It Matter?

Friday, 18 August 2023 31 Comments

Gail shows you the difference between seeing an Edgar Degas painting online and seeing it in person!

Edgar Degas - two paintings of ballet rehearsal onstage

Edgar Degas – Ballet Rehearsal Onstage x 2!

Friday, 6 September 2019 22 Comments

While researching another project, I came across two paintings by Edgar Degas – one in oil, one in pastel – on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. I was so taken by these pieces that I had to bring them to you! They have slightly different titles but are basically the same painting of a

Edgar Degas, "After the Bath, Woman With a Towel," c. 1893-97, pastel on blue-gray wove paper, 27 7/8 x 22 9/16 in, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachussetts

After the Bath – Edgar Degas’ Pastels of Women Drying Themselves

Thursday, 20 November 2014 8 Comments

In the shower the other morning, I was pondering what I could write about in my next blog post. And then as I grabbed my big fluffy towel, it came to me – I’d find images by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) of women after the bath, drying themselves. Surprisingly, I realized I hadn’t yet written about