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Pink Thing of The Day: Pink Dancer by Edgar Degas

Pink Dancer By Edgar Degas
Photo By Gail

French Impressionist Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917) painted dancers for roughly half of his career, and the above pastel drawing is only one of dozens of his images depicting a dancer in a pink outfit. I saw this one, Danseuse Rose (1896) at MOMA in New York over the summer.