You are likely to find exactly the degas danseuse you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. In our selection of items, you can find
Impressionist examples as well as a
modern version. Making the right choice when shopping for a degas danseuse may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 19th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right degas danseuse for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of
beige,
black,
brown and
gold. Creating a degas danseuse has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by
(after) Edgar Degas,
Albert de Belleroche,
Giuseppe De Nittis and
Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson are consistently popular. Frequently made by artists working in
lithograph,
etching and
stencil, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.
A degas danseuse can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,250, while the lowest priced sells for $200 and the highest can go for as much as $107,040.
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
Find a collection of authentic Impressionist art on 1stDibs.