Edgar Degas. Drawings and Pastels (paperback)

Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) was described as ´the most intelligent, the most demanding, the most merciless draughtsman in the world´ by the poet and critic Paul Valery and today Degas is considered one of the outstanding draughtsman of the late nineteenth century. His powerful drawings and the pastles, which he himself characterized as ´orgies of colour´, are some of the most compelling works in western art.