1959 After Edgar Degas, "Dancer" Vintage Hungarian Art Deco Full-Color Print

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A beautiful rare Art Deco Style vintage First Edition full-color print of pastel painting "Dancer" (1899) by Edgar Degas, study … Read more A beautiful rare Art Deco Style vintage First Edition full-color print of pastel painting "Dancer" (1899) by Edgar Degas, study for pastel in the Toledo (USA) Museum of Art, a motif figuring on numerous drawings and pastels. Comes from a rare First and Only Edition art folio published in Budapest, Hungary in 1959. Signed in the print: "Degas". Printed on one side of high quality heavy paper. Name of artist on back is related to another piece in the folio. Excellent condition - minor edge wear, never framed.

Image 9.10"W x 8.75"H

Original piece is 12"H x 12 and 3/8"W, Majovszky Collection.

"Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874. “Out of all the subjects in modern life he has chosen washerwomen and ballet dancers.. . it is a world of pink and white.. . the most delightful of pretexts for using pale, soft tints.” 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 Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard. “It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.” See less