Degas was an end and a beginning, a bridge between the neo-classicism of his teacher’s teacher, Ingres, and the painting of modern life by that scruffy band of outsiders known as the Impressionists.

Getting carried away while looking at art is one of its central pleasures. It is among the reasons we buy pictures or go to museums: to lose ourselves. That experience is only heightened for ...

PARIS—The first major Paris exhibition devoted to Edgar Degas (1834-1917) since 1988, "Degas and the Nude," which opened last week at the Musée d'Orsay, focuses almost exclusively on nudes, but it ...

The Impressionist master has enchanted generations of art lovers, but a painting being offered at TEFAF in Maastricht enters a market that has its own rules. By Ted Loos Getting carried away while ...