Exhibition ‘Edgar Degas’ Opened

On September 18, the exhibition titled ‘Edgar Degas’ opened at the Yokohama Museum of Art (until December 31). It traced the artistic career of Impressionist artist Edgar Degas through approximately 120 works of art. Centered around 46 works from the Musée d’Orsay collection and featuring artworks from both Japan and abroad, the exhibition consisted of three sections: 1. ‘Koten shugi kara no shuppatsu (Beginnings in Classicism)’; 2. ‘Jikken to kakushin no jidai (The Era of Experimentation and Conviction)’; and 3. ‘Sōgō to saranaru tenkai (Synthesis and Further Development)’. Through oil paintings, pastels, sculptures and photographes, it demonstrated Degas’s journey towards his unique style, confronting an era of advancing modernization while grounded in French artistic tradition. (Japanese)