Exhibition

From 9 October 2011 to 5 February 2012, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is presenting a "Degas and the Nude" exhibition in partnership with the Musée d’Orsay.

This is the first time that a museum has organized an exhibition based on Degas’ nudes. The exhibition includes paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures and follows the evolution in the artist’s treatment of nudes from his early years to the end of his career.

The series of nudes is completed by two works by Henri Gervex and Puvis de Chavannes.

Nouvelles Images has published:

- Edgar Degas postcards
- Edgar Degas greeting cards
- Edgar Degas prints

for this exhibition.

The exhibition will then be presented at the Musée d’Orsay from March 2012.

A brief biography

Edgar Degas (1834-1917), a French painter and sculptor, came from a middle-class background. After studying law, he turned towards painting. His visual memory enabled him to accurately retranscribe the subjects that he observed back in his studio, where he recreated them in a pictorial composition.

Although he was one of the Impressionists, he remained on the margins through his choice of subjects: he never painted landscapes, preferring scenes of horse racing, dancing and nudes.

Towards the end of his life, an eye disease forced him to change his technique, giving preference to pastel work, as working with oil paints required too much precision. Most of our publications are drawings or pastels.