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Credit: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Martine Beck-Coppola
The largest survey of the work of Edgar Degas ever staged in Australia opens this coming Friday at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria as part of their Winter Masterpieces series, and if the images below are any indication it promises to be exactly that – a masterpiece retrospective of the work of one of history’s most revered and influential artists.
Degas: A New Vision will showcase more than 200 works by the famed French impressionist, whose vast oeuvre created over 50 years is largely characterised by his quietly observant paintings of ballerinas, women at work and in contemplative repose. Encompassing drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography and, of course, painting, A New Vision is also a world premiere and a joint enterprise between the NGV and The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, who will host the major retrospective of works drawn from over 40 cities and 65 collections in October this year.
Director of the NGV, Tony Ellwood has remarked of the exhibition that it “showcases [Degas] as one of the defining artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Considered one of the world’s most celebrated and significant artists, his influence upon modern and contemporary art is undeniable. Degas: A New Vision will provide audiences with a rare experience to truly be immersed in the creativity and originality of his art, giving visitors a deeper and richer understanding of his brilliance.”
You can preview select works from the exhibit below. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.
Degas: A New Vision opens June 24 at the NGV and will run until September 18.
Credit: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Levis (1963.45)
Credit: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Credit: © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Credit: © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Credit: Bequeathed by Mrs A.F. Kessler 1983, © Tate, London 2016
Credit: © Lyon MBA – Photo RMN / Ojeda, Le Mage
Credit: © RMN-Grand Palais / Michèle Bellot / Madeleine Coursaget
Credit: © 2016 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Tile image: Edgar Degas, The rehearsal c. 1874, oil on canvas, 58.4 x 83.8 cm, Lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council: from the Burrell Collection with the, approval of the Burrell Trustees, © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection
Cover image: Edgar Degas, Rehearsal hall at the Opéra, rue Le Peletier 1872, oil on canvas, 32.7 x 46.3 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski