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The Racehorses (Leaving the Weighing in) -
Edgar Degas Oil Painting


Degas felt no animal was closer to a première danseuse, a star in the ballet, than a perfectly balanced thoroughbred. He loved to display their beauty, supreme grace and elegant leanness, searching always for accuracy in style, and style in accuracy. Degas painted horses like a single line of a poem, "Tout nerveusement nu dans sa robe de soie" - "Naked and shivering with nerves in his silk coat."
 

The Racehorses (Leaving the Weighing in)

Artist: Edgar Degas
(1834 - 1917)

     
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