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detail wasn’t accurate, it needed to

feel true. And that approach has

weathered the test of time. In his

paintings, you’re transported back

to those moments with the per-

formers, and you don’t feel that

with other paintings of that period.

That’s the great irony: the works of

his contemporaries, who were also

in those circles and who labored over

capturing every detail, feel artificial—

whereasDegas’artstillfeelstrue.”

Allison Malafronte is a fi ne arts and

design writer, editor and curator.

LEFT
Woman in Loge
1880; pastel and oil
on cardboard on
canvas, 26x20⅞ )
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS,
HOUSTON; THE LEWIS
COLLECTION, TR:377-2014

BELOW
Spanish Dancers
and Musicians
1868–69; watercolor
and pen and black ink
on wove paper
10 ¼ x20¼ (overall
arch)
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART,
WASHINGTON; WOODNER
COLLECTION