Edgar Degas
The Private Impressionist
Works on Paper by the Artist and his Circle
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TRAVELING EXHIBITION
2010 - 2013
Curated by:
Robert Flynn Johnson
Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts
of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Organized by:
Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
in association with
Denenberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
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Edgar Degas The great French artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) once said, “I wish to be illustrious and unknown.” To a great extent, his wish has been granted. By the time of his death over ninety years ago, his art had become famous; his reputation since has only grown. Yet the individual who was so accomplished in so many artistic endeavors--from drawing, painting, and printmaking to sculpture and photography--has remained elusive. Unjustly labeled a misogynist because of his frank depiction of women, and a cynic because of his reputation for biting wit, Degas was, rather, arguably the greatest artistic observer of human nature since Rembrandt. Although often aloof to strangers, Degas elicited great reciprocal warmth and loyalty from his family, and as well from a wide circle of friends that included some of the greatest writers and artists of the epoch. The present exhibition, consists of twenty drawings, thirteen prints, three photographs, two monotypes, one sculpture, and a letter by Degas, and is drawn from a single private collection. In its special focus, the collection endeavors to illuminate the background, personality, and uniqueness of Edgar Degas the man, as well as presenting his genius as an artist. The subject matter of the works in the exhibition is often quite personal in nature. In addition to three self-portraits, there are depictions of his father, his brother Achille, an Italian niece, his loyal housekeeper Sabine Neyt, the wife of a patron, Madame Ernest May, three portraits of artist Edouard Manet, and two of Mary Cassatt. The exhibition includes drawings after antique sculpture and old masters such as Mantegna, Michelangelo, and Solario. There are prints and drawings that touch upon the three great themes of his art: the human body, horseracing, and the ballet. Also to be shown is a group of brilliant color aquatints, facsimiles after Degas monotypes by the artist Maurice Potin commissioned shortly after the artist’s death by Degas’ friend and dealer, Ambroise Vollard, who owned the originals. Supplementing the works by Degas in the exhibition will be a select group of seventeen rare works of art on paper by artists whose friendship he shared, including Annie Ayrton, Giovanni Boldini, Marcellin Desboutin, Hippolyte Flandrin, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, Alphonse Legros, Adolph von Menzel, Gustave Moreau, Henri Regnault, William Rothenstein, Alfred Stevens, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Joseph Gabriel Tourny, and six drawings by Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, one of Degas’ closest friends during the last decades of his career. The group of Jeanniot drawings comprise a portrait of Degas’ younger disciple Jean-Louis Forain, three self-portraits, and two exceedingly rare portraits of Degas himself, famous for his reticence to pose. The compelling works in this exhibition will provide an insightful exploration into the art and personality of one of the most skilled, intelligent, and complex artists in the history of art. The exhibition is curated by Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. A full color catalogue will be published in which Johnson will contribute an essay outlining Degas' fascinating family background [with roots from Naples, Italy to New Orleans , Louisiana] which led him to become the only Impressionist to visit and work in the United States. Referencing the works in the exhibition, Johnson will follow Degas' development from precocious draftsman to the most intellectually probing artist of his era. He will also discuss Degas' innovative achievements in the areas of printmaking, monotype, photography and sculpture. Robert Flynn Johnson is Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco where he was Curator in Charge from 1975 until his retirement in 2007. For over thirty years he was also an instructor at the San Francisco Art Institute. Some of his numerous publications include , LUCIAN FREUD : WORKS ON PAPER [1988 ] , PLANT KINGDOMS : THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES JONES [1998] , ARTIST'S BOOKS IN THE MODERN ERA [2001] , ANONYMOUS: ENIGMATIC IMAGES FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHERS [2004] , JUDGING BY APPEARANCE : MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOSEPH AND DEBORAH GOLDYNE [2006] , VALENTIN POPOV [2008] , and the forthcoming THE FACE IN THE LENS :ANONYMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS [2009] . The exhibition is being organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, in association with Denenberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA. It will be available for presentation beginning in the 2010 through 2012.
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Schedule 2010 OPEN 2011 OPEN 2012 Feb 23 - May 28 April 15 -December 31 OPEN 2013 OPEN |
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Edgar Degas Checklist of Exhibition Edgar Degas: Drawings 1. Achille Degas, 1853 2. Self Portrait in Profile, ca. 1854 3. Study After an Etruscan Head-shaped Pot, ca. 1854 4. Study After an Antique Head of a Youth, Studies of Legs and Foot, 1854-55 5. Studies of Head and Arms, 1854-55 6. Studies of Legs and Feet and a Study After a Michelangelo Sculpture, ca. 1854 7. Copy of a Crucified Thief from Mantegna’s Crucifixion in the Lourve, ca. 1855 8. Copy of the Head of the Virgin from Solario’s The Virgin with the Green Cushion 9. Self Portrait in the Manner of Filippino Lippi, ca. 1855 10. Portrait of the Artist’s Father and Other Studies, ca. 1857 11. Study for Dante and Virgil, 1857-58 12. Mlle Dembowska, 1858-59 14. Jockey on Horseback in Profile, 1860-65 15. Plough Horse, 1860-61 16. Horses Galloping, ca. 1866 17. Studies of Draught Horses, 1860-65 18. Sabine Neyt, the Artist’s Housekeeper, ca 1879 19. Madame Ernest May, 1880 20. Jockey, ca. 1882 Edgar Degas: Prints 21. The Engraver, Joseph Tourny, 1857 22. Edgar Degas: Self Portrait, 1857 23. Mlle. Nathalie Wolkonska, 1860-61 24. Marguerite DeGas, the Artist’s Sister, 1860-62 25. Manet Seated, Turned to the Left, 1864-65 26. Manet Seated, Turned to the Right, 1864-65 27. Edouard Manet, Bust-Length Portrait, 1864-65 28. Alphonse Hirsch, 1875 29. On Stage II, 1876-77 30. At the Café des Ambassadeurs, 1879-80 31. Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery, 1879-80 32. Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery, 1879-80 33. Before the Race, ca. 1895 Edgar Degas: Monotypes 34. Bust of a Woman, ca. 1876 35. The Two Trees, ca. 1876 Edgar Degas: Photographs 36. The Apotheosis of Degas, 1885 37. Christine Lerolle, 1895-96 38. Yvonne Lerolle, 1895-96 Edgar Degas: Letter 39. Letter to the artist, Louis Braquaval (French, 1856-1919), November 4, 1897 Edgar Degas: Sculpture 40. Head, Study of the Portrait of Mademoiselle S., 1892-95 Color engravings and aquatints 41. - 48. Guy de Maupassant La Maison Tellier, Paris; Ambroise Vollard, Editeur, 1934 49. - 56. Pierre Louys Mimes: Des Courtisanes de Lucien, Paris; Ambroise Vollard, 57. Annie Ayrton (English ?-1886), Portrait of a Working Girl, ca. 1880 58. Giovanni Boldini (Italian 1842-1931), Portrait of the Artist, Fernand Cormon 59. Marcellin Desboutin (French 1823-1902), Self Portrait, ca. 1875, 60. Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (French 1809-1864), Madame Flacheron, 1864 61. Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (French 1780-1867), Head of the Virgin, ca. 1850 62. Alphonse Legros (French 1837-1911), Self Portrait, 1896 63. Adolf von Menzel (German 1815-1905), Menzel’s Sister Emilie, Asleep on a Train, 64. Gustave Moreau (French 1826-1898), Portrait of a Man, ca. 1854 65. Henri Regnault (French 1843-1871), Self Portrait, ca. 1870 66. William Rothenstein (English 1872-1945), The Artist Adolf von Menzel 67. Alfred Stevens (Belgian, 1823-1906), Self Portrait, ca. 1850 68. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French 1864-1901), Portrait of a Woman, 1894 69. Joseph Gabriel Tourney (French 1817-1880), Portrait of a Man, ca. 1857 70. Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French 1848-1934), Four Self Portraits, ca. 1890 71. Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French 1848-1934), Portrait of Degas, ca. 1890 72. Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French 1848-1934) Portrait of the Sculptor Albert 73. & 74. 75. Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French 1848-1934), Degas in Old Age, ca. 1916
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