Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Dance Examination,1880, Pastel on paper © Denver Art Museum
Degas: a passion for perfection
Tue 3 October 2017 - Sun 14 January 2018
Fitzwilliam Museum
After a career spanning over half a century, Degas died in September 1917, in his eightythird
year. This exhibition marks the centenary of the artist’s death with a celebration of his lifetime’s achievement. A remarkable range of work – paintings, pastels, drawings, watercolours, prints of different types, counterproofs and sculptures in bronze and wax - reveal Degas’s fascination with technical experimentation and constant drive to expand his means of expression. Arranged thematically, the exhibition highlights many of the subjects most prominent in Degas’s work – nudes, café scenes and the dance – as well as his individual approach to landscape painting. Degas’s lifelong passion for learning from others is revealed in a series of copies he made after works by Italian Renaissance artists and near-contemporaries such as J.-A.-D. Ingres and Eugène Delacroix. Counterbalancing this, a final section examines Degas’s artistic legacy in the 20th and 21st centuries, notably in the work of Walter Sickert,
Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, R.B. Kitaj, Ryan Gander and Francis
Bacon.
The exhibition draws substantially on the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the most extensive and representative in the UK. These will be complemented by an outstanding group of around sixty loans from private and public collections throughout Europe and the United States, several of which will be on public display for the first time, and by a group of paintings and drawings once belonging to the economist John Maynard Keynes.
Cost: Free
Enquiries and booking
No need to book.
Timing
10:00am-5:00pm Tuesday-Saturday every week from Tuesday 3 October 2017 until Saturday 23 December 2017
10:00am-5:00pm Tuesday-Saturday every week from Wednesday 27 December 2017 until Sunday 14 January 2018
12:00pm-5:00pm Sunday every week from Tuesday 3 October 2017 until Friday 29 December 2017
12:00pm-5:00pm Sunday every week from Monday 1 January 2018 until Sunday 14 January 2018
All times
Tue 3 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 4 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 5 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 6 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 7 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 8 October 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 10 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 11 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 12 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 13 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 14 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 15 October 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 17 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 18 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 19 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 20 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 21 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 22 October 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 24 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 25 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 26 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 27 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 28 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 29 October 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 31 October 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 1 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 2 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 3 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 4 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 5 November 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 7 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 8 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 9 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 10 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 11 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 12 November 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 14 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 15 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 16 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 17 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 18 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 19 November 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 21 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 22 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 23 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 24 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 25 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 26 November 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 28 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 29 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 30 November 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 1 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 2 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 3 December 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 5 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 6 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 7 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 8 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 9 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 10 December 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 12 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 13 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 14 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 15 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 16 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 17 December 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 19 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 20 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 21 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 22 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 23 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 24 December 2017 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Wed 27 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 28 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 29 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 30 December 2017 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Tue 2 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 3 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 4 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 5 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 6 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 7 January 2018 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tue 9 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Wed 10 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Thu 11 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Fri 12 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sat 13 January 2018 | 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sun 14 January 2018 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |