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GRANDE ARABESQUE BY DEGAS
ITEM NUMBER: TEZHF202
SIZE: 21.5" WIDE X 16" HIGH
FEATURED FINISH: BRONZE PATINA
MEDIUM: BONDED STONE
SCULPTOR: ELEGANZA
SAFE FOR OUTDOOR USE?: F
SHIPPING AND HANDLING FEE: $22.95
TIME TO SHIP: MADE TO ORDER, SHIPS IN 2-3 WEEKS
PRICE: $ 432.00
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) - "He loved the human body for what it is; plus movement." The French poet Baudelaire wrote these words; they perfectly fit either Rodin or Degas. Rodin was a sculptor who occasionally turned to painting. Bothe of these artist had a lifelong fascination with the expressiveness of the human body and its movements. Rodin preferred to catch his models in the ordinary activities of daily life. Degas analyzed the movement and captured it in his painting and sculpture. His subjects were often the ballet girls at the opera.Grande Arabesque by Degas Musee d'Orsay, Paris. Degas, the gentleman artist, was absolutely fascinated by the ballet girls of the Paris Opera. They gave him the opportunity study and sketch movement which he was also delighted to see in the race horses at Longchamp and the body positions which he observed in working or bathing women. One of the little dancers at the Opera remembered Degas as a man who wore glasses with blue lenses to protect his eyes and who was continually stopping the young dancers to observe and sketch them. The balanced and spatial study of the Grand Arabesque seemed to particularly interest him . Two other sculptural studies and at least eight sketches or paintings of this position have been found among his works. The Grand Arabesque was cast in bronze after his death; probably sculpted in about 1890. The roughness of style to be observed in all of his later works resulted from failing eyesight and from his desire to capture the essential position of the movement rather than to produce with a refinement of detail.
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