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Two Dancers

This pastel shows two dancers preparing for their performance. Their gestures indicate that they are adjusting their earrings and coiffures. Degas has limited his palette to two colours: pink and blue-green. As so often in his work, he chose to focus on the dancers’ movements and poses – their bodies rather than the girls as individuals. This pastel is part of a series of pictures based on photographs Degas took in his studio in Montmartre.

Credit: Gift 1913 Nationalmusei Vänner...

Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard. sketching beneath in charcoal
63.5 x 53.0cm
NMB 345
Image and text © Nationalmuseum Sweden, 2019

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