‘We had the painting cleaned and the colours are amazing,’ says Antoine Lebouteiller, Director of Impressionist & Modern Art at Christie’s France. This work, which has been in the same French family since 1918, is the highlight of the Impressionist & Modern Art auction at Christie’s Paris on 31 March. One of the large oil paintings Degas kept for himself in his Paris studio was Danseuses (Les coulisses de l'Opéra), which he completed around 1886. The stylistic innovations and quality of his work, which encompassed painting in oils, pastel drawings, engravings, monotypes, sculptures and photographs, remain a staggering achievement. By the time of his death at the age of 83 he had produced roughly 1,500 depictions of dancers, more than half his entire oeuvre. Edgar Degas (1834-1917) came to know every inch of the Paris Opera, haunting its backstage areas like the proverbial phantom.
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