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Lot Essay
"C'est pour ma seul satisfaction que j'ai model en cire btes et gens, non pour me dlaisser de la peinture et du dessin mais pour donner mes peintures, plus d'expression, plus d'ardeur et plus de vie'"
Edgar Degas
Degas was remarkably precise and conscientious in modelling the figure. He usually worked from models in long sessions. He would use a plumb-line to guarantee that the pose of his model and his sculpture were identical, and in his late years due to his failing sight, he even resorted to using a pair of calipers as an aid.
To use Baudelaire's words, Degas "loved the human body as a material harmony, as a beautiful architecture with the addition of movement" (Rewald, op. cit., 1990, p. 23).
Edgar Degas
Degas was remarkably precise and conscientious in modelling the figure. He usually worked from models in long sessions. He would use a plumb-line to guarantee that the pose of his model and his sculpture were identical, and in his late years due to his failing sight, he even resorted to using a pair of calipers as an aid.
To use Baudelaire's words, Degas "loved the human body as a material harmony, as a beautiful architecture with the addition of movement" (Rewald, op. cit., 1990, p. 23).