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“Degas used pastel like dust under a footlight — peach, lavender, and dim stage green stacked in delicate strata across a charcoal ground.”
Edgar Degas
Painter · Impressionism · 1834–1917
French impressionist whose pastel ballerinas inhabit dim stage lights, slipper pink, and powdered tulle.
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“Degas used pastel like dust under a footlight — peach, lavender, and dim stage green stacked in delicate strata across a charcoal ground.”
French impressionist whose pastel ballerinas inhabit dim stage lights, slipper pink, and powdered tulle.