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Seller: Lion Heart Autographs Inc

United States
About Item: DEGAS, EDGAR. (1834-1917). French artist and one of the founders of Impressionism. ALS. ("Degas"). 1p. 12mo. (Paris), July 26, 1897. To Monsieur Baudin [possibly French porcelain maker, labor activist and member of the Chamber of Deputies EUGÈNE BAUDIN (1853-1918)]. In French with translation. "If you are still at Mont Dore the 3rd or the 4th, we are going to see one another. I am going there for a cure. I am writing to you in Paris hoping it will be forwarded to you, and at the same time I am writing to Mont Dore assuming that the mailman will find you…" Degas began to study painting early – first at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and then in Italy. He exhibited his realistic works at the Salon, but by the 1870s he had become disillusioned with that staid institution. At that time, he took a leading role among his colleagues Renoir, Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro to launch their own exhibit in 1874. Famously, Monet's Impression: Sunrise was on view, earning its members the appellation "Impressionists,"… Read More
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