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« Our critical catalogue will be devoted to paintings and pastels, among which we will be identifying pastels and charcoals as well as pastels on monotype. »
Michel Schulman
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Why create a new critical catalogue ?
The objective of this internet site is to partially present and visualize the forthcoming digital critical catalogue of the work of Edgar Degas, currently under preparation. The catalogue undertaken exposes the huge gap between the catalogues of Paul-André Lemoisne of 1946 and Theodore Reff of 1984 and the knowledge that we have of Degas today. The eminent publications of my predecessors form the basis and the point of departure of my research. Due to numerous exhibitions, auctions and acquisitions by museums, the “world” of Degas has changed. Seventy years have passed since the publication of Lemoisne’s catalogue and more than thirty since the publication of Theodore Reff’s! It is therefore necessary to reconsider Degas’s body of work in its current context.
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