Memories of Degas

George Moore, Walter Sickert

Memories of Degas
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pallas Athene Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 June 2019
Pages
112
ISBN
9781843681748

Memories of Degas

George Moore, Walter Sickert

Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore’s pioneering essay, 'The Painter of Modern Life’. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas’s great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert’s essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is amongst the best of his writings.

Together these memoirs represent some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English - as well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important and most influential - and the most humane - of the painters of the later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins, and are illustrated with thirty pages of colour plates covering the span of Degas’s dazzling career.

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