Two Dancers
1873
Degas was absolutely obsessed with ballerinas, creating over 1,500 works featuring them, but he rarely showed them performing on stage. Instead, he loved capturing the gritty, exhausted moments backstage, just like here where one dancer is hunched over tying her slipper while the other stretches her arm behind her head. The rough, textured strokes give the scene a sense of immediate movement, as if we've just peeked into a private rehearsal room.
- Technique
- Pastel
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