Degas Exhibition Canberra NGA Opening Times and Dates

 Degas Exhibition Canberra NGA Opening Times and Dates

Degas
Master of French art

12 December 2008 – 22 March 2009

Exhibition hours
10.00 am – 5.00 pm daily
plus Saturday evening 5.00 – 7.00 pm (13 December 2008 – 14 March 2009)

 Location

National Gallery of Australia
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600

For the first time audiences in Australia have the opportunity to see an exhibition devoted to one of the most significant and admired French artists of the nineteenth century, Edgar Degas.

The National Gallery of Australia presents important paintings and sculptures by Degas, as well as drawings, experimental monotypes and photographs. The exhibition draws works from major Degas collections, including Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

The exhibition highlights the artist’s favourite themes of modern life in Paris, such as portraits, horseracing, the ballet, laundresses and bathers, and demonstrates his skill as a master painter, sculptor and

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Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas  was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and continue reading »

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