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Article: How to do Degas // Buy tickets early to avoid a repeat of `Monet' mania
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- September 26, 1996
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The Art Institute, still in the afterglow of its stunning success
with last year's Monet exhibition, is again banking on Impressionism.
Sort of.
Anyone who remembers the clamor as "Claude Monet: 1840-1926"
became The Show That Ate Chicago might look with trepidation at this
latest endeavor, dedicated to the works of Edgar Degas. And with
good reason: It's a smaller exhibition, guaranteeing that far fewer
people will get to see it.
"Degas: Beyond Impressionism" features late creations of the
French master from the 1890s and 1900s in the form of paintings,
pastels, drawings and sculptures. Although Degas' Impressionist
period is represented, the main slant is toward the artist's ...