Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Le Ballet de ‘Robert Le Diable’ (The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer’s Opera Robert Le Diable) 1876 Oil on canvas, 76.6 × 81.3 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was born in Paris where he entered the…
(1891–1955) Olga Picasso, born Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova Olga Khokhlova in Picasso‘s Montrouge studio, spring 1918. Olga Khokhlova in Art: Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil spring 1918 Musée Picasso, Paris Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Femme en chemise assise…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Danseuses (The Dancers) c.1899 Pastel on paper, 62.2 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The incandescent, expressive colors of Edgar Degas’s pastel seem to vibrate off the paper. Applied in layered webs of rhythmic strokes,…
(1818–1893) Charles-François Gounod Works: • Faust (1859) • Mireille (1864) • Roméo et Juliette (1867) • Inno e Marcia Pontificale (1869) • Marche funèbre d’une marionnette (1872) • Petite Symphonie (1885) • La Reine de Saba (1862) Gounod in Art:…
(1875–1937) Joseph Maurice Ravel Works: • Boléro (1928) • Concerto pour la main gauche (1932) • Concerto pour piano en sol majeur (1932) • Daphnis et Chloé (1909-12) • Gaspard de la nuit (1908) • L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (1925)…
(1866–1925) Éric Alfred Leslie Satie Works: • Trois Gymnopédies (1888) • Six Gnossiennes (1890-97) • Trois morceaux en forme de poire (1911) • Sports et Divertissements (1914) • Parade (1917) • Socrate (1919) Erik Satie in Art: Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938)…
(1836–1891) Clément Philibert Léo Delibes Works: • Coppélia (1870) • Lakmé (1883) • Sylvia (1876) Born February 21 1836 Saint-Germain-du-Val, now La Flèche (France) Died January 16 1891 Paris (France) Buried Cimetière de Montmartre (Paris) Occupation Composer Musician Occupation Organist Professor Award…
(1714–1787) Works: • Alceste (1767) • Iphigénie en Aulide (1774) • Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) • Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) • Paride ed Elena (1770) Born July 2 1714 Erasbach, city of Berching (Germany) Died November 15 1787 Vienna (Austria) Cause…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au cirque (At the Circus) 1899 Crayon, pastel, and watercolor on wove paper, 25.1 × 35.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Depicted here is a scene from the ballet Papa Chrysantheme performed in 1892 at the…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche (Fourth Position Front on the Left Leg) c.1880s, cast 1919–1921 Bronze, 58.4 x 37.9 x 35.7 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown