{"id":419329,"date":"2024-07-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=419329"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:57:32","slug":"edgar-degas-ukrainian-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/edgar-degas-ukrainian-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Degas Portrayed These Exuberant Ukrainian Dancers with \u2018Orgies of Color\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/drawings-watercolor-paintings\/figurative-drawings-watercolors\/edgar-degas-ukrainian-dancers-edgar-degas\/id-a_14060422\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers--950x726.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Ukrainian Dancers,&quot; 1899, by Edgar Degas, offered by M. S. Rau\" class=\"wp-image-419373\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers--950x726.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers--458x350.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers--120x92.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers--768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers--1221x933.jpg 1221w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancers-.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/drawings-watercolor-paintings\/figurative-drawings-watercolors\/edgar-degas-ukrainian-dancers-edgar-degas\/id-a_14060422\/\">Edgar Degas, <em>Ukrainian Dancers<\/em>, 1899, offered by M.S. Rau<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be an understatement to say that renowned French <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/impressionist\/\">Impressionist<\/a> artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/edgar-degas-1834-1917-french\/art\/\">Edgar Degas<\/a> (1834\u20131917) was preoccupied with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/degas-ballerina\/\">ballet dancers<\/a> of the Paris Opera. He made nearly 1,500 images of them over the course of his career, returning regularly to the Opera to sketch the ballerinas in charcoal and transforming the drawings into paintings in his studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the late 1890s, different performers caught his eye \u2014 Ukrainian folk dancers. With their billowing white blouses, flowing skirts and streaming hair ribbons, they gave Degas an exhilarating new challenge when it came to depicting movement \u2014 one of his primary artistic missions. In 1899, he produced a series of 18 works on paper, including 6 finished pastels, showing the women in their traditional garb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/drawings-watercolor-paintings\/figurative-drawings-watercolors\/edgar-degas-ukrainian-dancers-edgar-degas\/id-a_14060422\/\">One of the most complex and eye-catching<\/a> of the six \u2014 fully developed, with an incredibly textured surface, radiant hues and a wonderfully lyrical composition \u2014 is currently available on 1stDibs through New Orleans fine art and antiques gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/ms-rau-antiques\/\">M.S. Rau<\/a>, which is offering the work on behalf of a private collector for $19.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas-794x950.jpeg\" alt=\"Self-portrait of Edgar Degas, circa 1855\u201356\" class=\"wp-image-419444\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas-794x950.jpeg 794w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas-293x350.jpeg 293w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas-100x120.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas-768x919.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas-780x933.jpeg 780w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Young-Degas.jpeg 1003w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Self-portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/edgar-degas-1834-1917-french\/art\/\">Edgar Degas<\/a>, ca. 1855\u201356, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/436158\">in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>. Public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The piece has been held in private collections and loaned on occasion to major museums, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/\">Royal Academy of Arts<\/a> in London and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getty.edu\/museum\/?campaign=homescomp196\">Getty Museum<\/a> in Los Angeles. This summer there\u2019s a rare opportunity to view it in person at M.S. Rau\u2019s Aspen, Colorado, pop-up, open through September. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most important works of art by one of the most important artists, in perfect condition,\u201d says the gallery\u2019s president, Bill Rau. \u201cThat\u2019s the holy grail.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ukrainians, with their vivacious choreography and exuberant, colorful garments, seem to have offered Degas a joyous counterpoint to the more rigid ballet dancers. It bears noting that the ballerinas were often young girls from indigent families sent to the opera to learn a trade (which notoriously included enduring the advances of male suitors waiting for them backstage, as Degas often depicted).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interest in Russian culture had swelled in late 19th-century Paris, thanks to the alliance that formed between Russia and France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War. Degas, a devotee of Paris\u2019s cultural delights, probably encountered the Ukrainian dancers in the city\u2019s cabarets. (At the time, Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2022\/apr\/03\/national-gallery-renames-degas-russian-dancers-as-ukrainian-dancers\">the series was long referred to<\/a> as &#8220;Russian Dancers.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer--720x950.jpeg\" alt=\"An 1899 drawing of a Ukrainian folk dancer by Edgar Degas\" class=\"wp-image-419450\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer--720x950.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer--265x350.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer--91x120.jpeg 91w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer--768x1014.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer--707x933.jpeg 707w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Degas-Ukrainian-Dancer-.jpeg 909w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Degas worked out his arrangements of Ukrainian dancers in multiple drawings. The woman on the left in the pastel offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/ms-rau-antiques\/\">M.S. Rau<\/a> appears here in a work on paper in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/436157\">collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>. Public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With these new subjects, Degas explored a warmer palette than the cool greens and blues of his ballet pictures. He was nearly blind by the time he portrayed the lively Slavic scenes, and his surfaces had become increasingly soft and blurred \u2014 more Impressionistic, one might say. The contrast of the white blouses against the dark orange skirts may have appealed to him as his vision declined. He had severe light sensitivity, as well, so the outdoor setting is likely a fantasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the pastoral subject matter feels less modern than the artist\u2019s more obvious Parisian themes, the work is classic Degas, from his grouping of the dancers in a trio to the geometric rhyming of their limbs. A pioneering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/modern\/\">modernist<\/a> to the core, he was deeply influenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photography<\/a> and Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/ukiyo-e\/\">ukiyo-e prints<\/a>. He was at his best when conceiving incongruous and imbalanced compositions, where his subjects are frozen in midmotion as in a snapshot, thrust into the foreground and audaciously cropped. We see all of that here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps most compelling is the fact that Degas himself was so excited about the series, which we know from the published diary of Julie Manet, niece of his dear friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/edouard-manet\/\">\u00c9douard Manet<\/a>. Writing in the 1890s, she explains that Degas enthusiastically invited her and a companion to his studio to see the new series, noting in particular what he described as the \u201corgies of color\u201d he was creating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were very touched,\u201d she writes, \u201cas he never shows anyone what he\u2019s working on.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"interstitial-banner interstitial-banner-collection interstitial-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-background-image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Herbin-Pont-Royal-copy-1000x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-interstitial size-interstitial\" alt=\"Auguste Herbin, Le Pont Royal - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Auguste Royal 1903\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container interstitial-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"interstitial-link-around-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/style\/impressionist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFind more Impressionist Art on 1stDibs \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-subheading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gold-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/style\/impressionist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>SHOP ALL<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be an understatement to say that renowned French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas (1834\u20131917) was preoccupied with the ballet dancers of the Paris Opera. 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