Edgar Degas - Dancers, Pink and Green 1890

Dancers, Pink and Green 1890
Dancers, Pink and Green
1890 82x75cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
The heavily impastoed surface suggests that Degas worked directly and extensively on this picture, building up passages of color with brushes and his fingers. By mixing his colors with white to make them opaque, and by applying his pigments thickly and in several layers, he approximated the pastel technique that he had perfected in the 1880s. Degas punctuated the composition with the shadowy profile of a top-hatted patron of the Opéra, who enjoys the privilege of dallying with the dancers in the wings during a performance.