DEGAS, EDGAR

Additional reading Illustrated biographies of the artist include Ian Dunlop, Degas (1979); Bob McMullen, Degas: His Life, Times and Work (1984); Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas: Life and Work (1986); and Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas (1988). Critical works, devoted to stylistic development, are usually richly illustrated. Paul A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, 4 vol., (194748, reprinted with a supplement, 1984), is an essential standard study. Important works in English include Pierre Cabanne, Degas: Dancers (1963); John Rewald, Degas: Sculpture, the Complete Works, new ed. (1957); Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (1976); Theodore Reff, Degas, the Artist's Mind (1976, reprinted 1987); and Richard Kendall (ed.), Degas by Himself: Drawings, Prints, Paintings, Writings (1987). Important interpretive analyses are found in catalogs of notable exhibitions: Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas (1966); George T.M. Shackelford, Degas, the Dancers (1984); Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker (1984); Gtz Adriani, Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings (1985); Richard R. Bretell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago (1984); Jean Sutherland Boggs et al., Degas (1988); and Richard Thomson, The Private Degas (1987).