Тема: Degas, (Hilaire-Germain-) Edgar

...by promoting the works of Impressionists in the USA, largely through her brother Alexander. By persuading him to buy works by Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro, she made him the first important collector of such works in America.

The 1866 Salon accepted the works of some of them: Degas , Bazille, Berthe Morisot, Sisley; Monet exposed the portrait of Camille, Pissarro, les Bords de la Marne en hiver; Manet, Cйzanne, Renoir were refused, and Emile Zola wrote in l'Evenement a...

He was an engineer by profession, but also attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He met Edgar Degas , Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1874 and helped organize the first impressionist exhibition in Paris that same year.

Although he could in no way be thought of as an Impressionist, on the invitation of Degas he participated in the second Impressionist exhibition and was an invaluable contact between Paris and London in the dissemination of Impressionist ideas.

Moving in the circle of the Impressionists, he came to know most of them, and they reacted to his work in varying ways. Degas , as might have been expected, was brutally dismissive; Pissarro, in sending his son to see him in London, where Sargent...

His meeting with van Gogh, the influence of Seurat, the doctrines of Signac, and a rediscovery of the merits of Degas --especially in his pastels--all combined with his own streak of megalomania to produce a style that had little in common with the...

Guillaumin exhibited at the Salon des Refusйs and at most of the Impressionist exhibitions. Degas and Monet were not particularly impressed by his works, which were marked by a passion for colour that, towards the end of his life, brought him...