Degas: Beyond Impressionism

London, Chicago, and New Haven, CT: National Gallery Publications; Art Institute of Chicago; Distributed by Yale University Press, 1996. 324 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, May 22 to August 26, 1996 and at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 1996 to January 5, 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The first publication on Degas's mature work ... presents a new and definitive view of his last decades . . . drawings, pastels, oil paintings, and sculptures." - Jacket. CONTENTS: 17 Rue Victor Masse: Degas's last decades; Degas and the market-place: the accesibility of the late work; The metaphor of craft: tradition, draughtsmanship, and the transformation of Degas's technique; Colour: the late pastels and oil paintings; An art of renunciation: Degas's changing subject matter; The street of pictures; THE CATALOGUE: The years of transition; Drawing, tracing, and the sequence; Combing the hair; Women bathing; The role of sculpture; The figure and the landscape.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.