“It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.”ĭegas loved to deflate the image people had of him, but his words ring true, expressing his love for the grace of drawing and the charm of color.
“People call me the painter of dancing girls,” Degas later told Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard.
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. “Out of all the subjects in modern life he has chosen washerwomen and ballet dancers.
“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.
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