Denver Art Museum will be the only U.S. museum to host new Degas exhibit

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In a coup for the Denver Art Museum, officials this morning announced the museum will be the only place in the United States to see a wide-ranging new exhibit that looks at the evolution of French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas, who is known for his prolific output as much as his impact on the art world.

“Degas: A Passion for Perfection” will run Feb. 11-May 28, 2018, following its debut at the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, in the U.K. The Denver exhibit will include more than 100 works including paintings, drawings, pastels, etchings, monotypes and sculptures in bronze, ranging from 1855 to 1906, that express Degas’ long-running themes and obsessions.

Additional works by J.A.D Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Paul Cézanne will also be shown, the museum said in a press statement, “adding significant depth to the exhibition’s narrative.”

“Degas was the quintessential independent artist, and this exhibition will give visitors a more intimate look into his creative process as well as his public and private life,” said Christoph Heinrich, the Frederick and Jan Mayer director of the Denver Art Museum, in a press statement. “Several moments within the exhibition will encourage close, mindful looking, providing the opportunity for visitors to savor the range of media, subject matter and techniques that defined Degas as an innovator.”

The exhibit is organized by Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and curated in Denver by Timothy J. Standring, the Gates Family Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum. It will include well-known pieces by Degas, including the museum’s own Examen de Danse (Dance Examination), Trois Femmes Aux Courses (Three Women at the Race) and Woman Scratching Her Back.

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