Memories of Degas

George Moore, Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 October 2023

Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Painting & paintings; Nudes depicted in art; Biography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs

Series: Lives of the Artists

Degas was a celebrity in Britain in his lifetime, thanks originally to George Moore's pioneering essay, The Painter of Modern Life. When Degas died Moore reprised the essay with some further recollections, in part as a riposte to the memoir published by Degas's great admirer and follower, Walter Sickert. Sickert's essay, sparkling, engaged, witty and occasionally combative, is amongst the best of his writings. Together these memoirs represent some of the most vivid responses to Impressionism in English as well as painting an intimate picture of arguably the most important and most influential and the most humane of the painters of the later 19th century. Hitherto difficult to find, these essays are reprinted here with an introduction by Anna Gruetzner Robins and are illustrated with 30 pages of colour plates covering the span of Degas's dazzling career.

40 colour illustrations

By: George Moore, Walter Sickert
Edited by: Anna Gruetzner Robins
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm,
Weight: 126g
ISBN: 9781843681748
ISBN 10: 1843681749
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

George Moore (1852-1933) was an Irish writer of novels, poetry, plays and art criticism. His first ambition was to be a painter, and he spent much of the 1870's in Paris, where he came to know many of the leading figures in art and literature. Walter Sickert (1860-1942), of mixed Danish, German and English blood, became one of the most powerful followers of Degas in England, and an important link between Impressionism and Modernism. He also wrote much important art criticism. Anna Gruetzner Robins is Professor of History of Art at the University of Reading. She was co-curator of `Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: London and Paris 1870-1910', 2005 and editor of `Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art', 2000.

Reviews for Memories of Degas

""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews