In Focus

Barbour, Daphne; Lomax, Suzanne Quillen

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In Focus

Daphne Barbour (Editor), Suzanne Quillen Lomax (Editor)

Facture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 3: Degas

In Focus

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Daphne Barbour (Editor), Suzanne Quillen Lomax (Editor)

PublisherNational Gallery of Art

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20202

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BOOKFacture: Conservation Science Art History Volume 3: Degas

Daphne Barbour (Editor), Suzanne Quillen Lomax (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00206

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20192

This volume of Facture, a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works of art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, focuses exclusively on conservation treatment, technical art history, and scientific research related to masterpieces by the beloved French artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917). The National Gallery’s extraordinary collection of sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by Degas, including an incomparable group of his wax sculptures—among them his iconic Little Dancer Aged Fourteen—allows the institution to contribute significantly to understanding the artist’s methods and intentions. This volume features discussions of the notion of “finish” in Degas’s paintings, the complex makeup of his wax sculptures, the casting of posthumous bronzes, his innovative use of multiple layers of pastel and fixative in a late work on paper, and even a sonnet that Degas wrote to his “little dancer.”

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Daphne Barbour (Editor), Suzanne Quillen Lomax (Editor)

PublisherNational Gallery of Art

Print publication date August 2017 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300230116

EISBN 9780300257540

Illustrations 149

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