A Degas Sketchbook

by Carol Armstrong and David Hockney

In 1995 the Getty Museum acquired a sketchbook by the prolific artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Its images, dating from approximately 1877, embrace a variety of themes from everyday Parisian life the caf , concert, brothels, and ballet and were created during Degas's weekly visits to the home of writer Ludovic Hal vy, the first owner of the sketchbook. They show Degas's remarkable powers of observation, as well as the sureness and economy of his line...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892366109
• ISBN13: 9780892366101
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 9.5"