Biographic Degas Egypt creating a world of classical

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Biographic Degas Egypt creating a world of classicalMany people know that Edgar Degas (18341917) was a French artist and leading light of Impressionism, whose paintings brilliantly capture the movement of ballet dancers. What, perhaps, they dont know is that by his mid twenties he had made over 700 copies of other artists works; that he produced 1,500 studies of ballet dancers; and that, although Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime, 150 wax figures were found in his studio after his