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Edgar Degas - Dancers, Pink and Green [c.1890], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Degas punctuated this picture with the ominous shadow of a top-hatted patron of the Opéra, a select member of the Jockey Club who, with his friends, had special permission to linger in the wings during a performance. Degas constructed a scene in which two dancers on the stage are performing their pas de deux, as others, waiting in the wings, risk missing their cue while they dally with their patron.
There are no known drawings for this picture, and the thick impasto surface suggests that Degas worked directly and extensively on the canvas, building up passages of colour with brushes and his fingers. By mixing his colours 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 previous decade.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 82.2 x 75.6 cm]
