The first major monographic exhibition in Paris devoted to Edgar Degas (since the 1988 retrospective at the Grand Palais, ‘Degas and the Nude’) contributes to the ambition of the Musée d'Orsay gallery to show the recent progress in research regarding the great masters of the second half of the 19th Century, following the homage to Claude Monet and more recently Edouard Manet.
The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) from the beginning of his career in the 1850s until the end of his working life, but the subject has never before been explored in a Museum exhibition. “Degas and the Nude,” co-organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, features paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture, and calls attention to the evolution of the treatment of the nude from Degas’s early years, through his offerings from the 1880s and 1890s, to the last decades of his career.
This exhibition explores Degas's evolution in his practice of the nude, from the academic and historical approach of his early years down to the inscription of the body in modernity throughout his long career. A predominant element in the artist's work, together with dancers and horses, nudes are presented through all of the techniques used by Degas, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printing and above all pastel, which he brought to its highest degree of achievement.
Organized in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition takes advantage of the very rich collection of graphic works of the Musée d'Orsay, seldom shown due to its fragility, to which will be added exceptional loans from the largest collections, such as those of the New York Metropolitan Museum and the Chicago Art Institute.
More than three years in the making, ‘Degas and the Nude’, first held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston explored how Degas exploited all of the body's expressive possibilities. It showed how his personal vision of the nude informed his notion of modernity.
The first major monographic exhibition in Paris devoted to Edgar Degas (since the 1988 retrospective at the Grand Palais, ‘Degas and the Nude’) contributes to the ambition of the Musée d'Orsay gallery to show the recent progress in research regarding the great masters of the second half of the 19th Century, following the homage to Claude Monet and more recently Edouard Manet.
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