Edgar Degas in EL PAÍS English

'Impression, Sunrise' (1872), by Claude Monet, the painting that gave the movement its name. Critic, Louis Leroy, tried to imbue the word ‘Impressionism’ with negative connotations after visiting the Impressionists’ first exhibition in 1874.

France celebrates the anniversary of the art movement with an exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, focusing on the first exhibition organized in 1874 by artists who challenged the establishment to paint modern life

Young Lady (1866), by Édouard Manet, and Young Woman with Ibis, begun in 1857 and completed in 1866-68, by Edgar Degas.

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Manet and Degas: A rivalry that altered art history

Álex Vicente|Paris|Jun 26, 2023 - 18:15 CEST

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris exhibits the tense relationship between the two 19th-century artists who helped forge the avant-garde that would lead to Impressionism

The work of the French painter Edgar Degas titled for decades 'Russian Dancers' and which the National Gallery in London has re-catalogued as 'Ukrainian Dancers'.

Russian war in Ukraine

Moscow loses a cultural battle as Degas’ ‘Russian dancers’ recognized as Ukrainian

Óscar Gutiérrez|Madrid|May 31, 2023 - 15:53 CEST

Museums such as the National Gallery and the Metropolitan have agreed to retitle works described in their catalogs as Russian amid an offensive against the Russification of Ukrainian history

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Edgar Degas

150 years of Impressionism: the outcasts who altered the course of art history

Manet and Degas: A rivalry that altered art history

Moscow loses a cultural battle as Degas’ ‘Russian dancers’ recognized as Ukrainian

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