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Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline...
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"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
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"A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary's fierce determination wavers. Her father is begging her to return to Philadelphia to find a husband before it is too late, her...
14) Degas
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The program explores the life and works of the painter Edgar Degas, most famous for his modern and realistic depiction of the human form. Tim Marlow shows the differences between Degas and his fellow impressionists, and considers his emphasis on lines. Degas focused on women in all realms of life, particularly dancing.
16) Edgar Degas
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Examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century artist Edgar Degas, who loved to paint scenes of Paris and the people who worked and lived there.
17) Edgar Degas
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When is an impressionist not an impressionist? When he's Edgar Degas. He shows his works with Cassatt, Monet, and Renoir, but never considered his art to be 'impressionist' art. Why not? Young viewers will learn the reasons from an animated Degas himself as they watch him tell the story of his life and artistic career.