Edgar Degas
Subtitle: Waiting
By: Richard Thomson.
Contributors: Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.
Series: Getty Museum studies on art
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Malibu, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917.; Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: Edgar Degas was one of the great pioneers of modern art, and the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon museums are fortunate to own jointly one of his finest pastels, Waiting (L'Attente), which he made sometime between 1880 and 1882, about midway in his career.

In this fascinating monograph, author Richard Thomson explores this brilliant work in detail, revealing both the intricacies of its composition and the source of the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer. For Waiting is, indeed, an extraordinary object both in its craftsmanship and color and, perhaps most especially, in its aura of ambiguity and even mystery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.