Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

Edgar Degas was transfixed by the beauty of the ballet — but even more fascinated by the hard work of its dancers. The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., is showcasing an exhibit of ...

Edgar Degas’ treasured "Russian Dancers" artwork has been renamed "Ukrainian Dancers" by the UK's National Gallery more than 120 years after it was drawn.

“Edgar Degas: A Multimedia Artist in the Age of Impressionism," on view at The Clark through Oct. 6, celebrates the innovation of one of the impressionist movement's masters.

Edgar Degas, 39 years old at the time, would paint ballerinas for the rest of his career, and de Goncourt was right about the pretext. “People call me the painter of dancing girls,” Degas later told ...

The New Orleans home where French impressionist Edgar Degas lived for a year in the 19 th century has unveiled a statue of one of the artist’s most iconic images. Picture a statue of a proud ...

From family portraits to absinthe drinkers, racehorses to circus performers, Edgar Degas depicted many subjects in his pieces, but his most prolific output was paintings of young Parisian ballerinas.

The Phillips Collection’s new Degas exhibit features the artist’s Dancers at the Barre series. Photographs courtesy of The Phillips Collection A canvas, whether sketched in charcoal, smudged in pastel ...

Almost nobody knows her name. Her life past adolescence is a blank. And no one knows when she died, where she’s buried, or where her scant, likely miserable years were passed on her way to that ...

Sotheby’s London will auction Edgar Degas’s "Petite danseuse de quatorze ans" (1881) on June 24, for an estimated £10-15 million ($15-23 million).

French impressionist Edgar Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime: “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen.” But he loved sculpting in the privacy of his studio.