Martin Gayford

Ladies’ hats were his waterlillies – the obsessive brilliance of Edgar Degas

A review of Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels, by Christopher Lloyd. Are great draughtsmen rarer than great painters? Here is one

Edgar Degas - 'Dancer slipping on her shoe' (1874) 
issue 19 April 2014
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