A fine balance: Degas and the art of ballet
The ballet pictures of Edgar Degas were the laboratory for the painter's most daring ideasEdgar Degas and ballet dancers is one of the great painterly partnerships, like Monet and lilies, Gauguin and Tahiti, or Lucian Freud and naked flesh. The world of the ballet, and in particular of the Paris Opera Ballet, was Degas's specialist subject, as well as the source of materials for his most popular and lucrative lines. …