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Article: CHRYSLER MUSEUM'S WORK BY DEGAS DRAWS ATTENTION.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 2, 1996
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Byline: Larry Maddry
THE GOOD NEWS is that Edgar Degas' ``Dancer With Bouquets'' - a centerpiece of the Chrysler Museum's Skylight Impressionist Gallery - is receiving greater national attention than has ever gone to a work in the museum's collection.
The bad news is that ``Dancer With Bouquets'' didn't get such acclaim until it left Norfolk to be part of an exhibition elsewhere.
The painting is on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago and will be there until next year.
The masterpiece, an oil painting of an aging prima ballerina taking her bows after a performance, is the largest work - 71-by-60 inches - by the reclusive Frenchman to ...