Free shipping on orders over $60$5 flat rate under $604 items: 10% off · 8 items: 20% off
You save $77.97
Free shipping over $60 · 30-day returns · Dispatched in 1–2 business days
From the first sketch to the final varnish, The Pink Dancers, Before the Ballet is made by hand. Based on Edgar Degas's original. This impressionist oil painting wall decor is crafted on artist-grade canvas for anyone who wants portrait oil painting with the character of an original.
1884
Oil on canvas
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Denmark.
Ballerinas were Degas' favorite subjects (alongside horses). The majority of his paintings depict scenes of ballerinas. But Edgar Degas painted them, like Monet painting Haystacks, at different times and from different perspectives. Performing, rehearsing, dressing, resting - he effectively catalogued the life of a late 19th century ballerina with his exhaustive artwork on the subject. In sketches he would practice drawing the female form in all of the various complex poses into which ballerinas contort themselves during their performances, and he would then use these illustrations to help him in creating his paintings. His finished paintings of ballerinas are quite spectacular.
Painted, like Toulouse-Lautrec's art, with various mediums, including oils, pastels, chalk, and other materials, and contrived, like many of the Impressionist artists, with quick, imprecise brushstrokes to convey the sense of movement and vivacity of the scene, Degas' ballerina paintings appear cloudy and indistinct, no matter the situational subject matter. Whether tying their shoes or performing the great stunt of their show before the audience, these dancers are painted as candidly as possible by the artist. The frequency with which he painted them perhaps reminds us of Claude Monet's thirty canvases devoted to the fa?ade of the Rouen Cathedral and how his art of Impressionism was based on craft. Here, similarly, the artist paints and repaints scenes of a single subject matter to develop a comprehensive image or understanding of something (in this case, ballerinas). Through craft, the artist can perfect his technique, and through technique the artist can craft his art.
The subject matter is almost superfluous to the medium, and yet Degas' preoccupation with ballerinas bears more ties to the Impressionist philosophy of art than might be ascertained at first glance.
Every hand painted oil painting in this figurative series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.
Materials matter for impressionist wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this impressionist oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
Whether the search term is portrait oil painting, bedroom wall art, or impressionist oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $77.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $120.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $166.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $221.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $430.48 |
The sizes shown are the reproduction canvas sizes we paint to order. The dimensions given in a work's description refer to the original artwork and will differ from the sizes offered here. Not sure? Read the size guide or e-mail us.
Free on orders over $60; a flat $5 below that. Dispatched in 1–2 business days; 30 days to send it back. Full policy.
Every canvas is painted by hand in oils on artist-grade stretched canvas, with an extra blank border left for framing. How to care for your painting.
Measurements are on the size guide, or e-mail [email protected] and we reply within one business day.
