Friends, Ballet, Cafe – Through the Sketchbook

Figure and character sketches of friends, cafe singers, and personalities from nights at the ballet, and cafe and for his finished sketches and paintings, 1877.

Graphite, charcoal, and black ink on wove paper.

Artist: Edgar Degas.

See also the book, A Degas Sketchbook, Carol Armstrong, with a postscript by David Hockney. J. Paul Getty Museum. 2000.

This full album is online at The J. Paul Getty Trust, U.S.A.

What has the sketchbook been in the past and what can it be today? Together this website demonstrates how sketchbooks cross disciplines, skills, cultures, gender, and class etc., to gain a better understanding.

The sketchbooks appear here not necessarily for the 'name' of the artist, but for the different thinking and seeing through the sketchbook.