Degas's Paintings | Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck | The National Gallery, London
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Channel: The National Gallery · 2016 · Education
Edgar Degas is famous as a founder of Impressionism but he was also a major collector of art. Anne Robbins, the curator of the National Gallery exhibition ‘Painters’ Paintings’ and Ann Dumas of the Royal Academy, discuss this little-known aspect of the artist’s life in the context of his pursuit of the fragments of Edouard Manet’s ‘The Execution of Maximilian’; one of the masterpieces featured in ‘Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck’. Book now: http://bit.ly/1XauCht Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck 23 June – 4 September 2016 Book now: http://bit.ly/1XauCht Explore the connections between painters and the paintings they possessed in an exhibition spanning over five hundred years of art history. Discover the private acquisitions of Freud, Matisse, Degas, Leighton, Watts, Lawrence, Reynolds, and Van Dyck. Find out more: http://bit.ly/1XauCht Members go free: http://bit.ly/1UoDjP7
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