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Gail Feigenbaum, curator of painting, says there is no way to be sure if the art of Degas and would have looked if he had not come here ", but she is convinced that "the visual experience of New Orleans moved to its aesthetics." Some critics have suggested that the colors of New Orleans has had a lasting impact on Degas, and the influence of the city is in the works realized years later he returned to France. What the 20th century draws to a close, New Orleans Degas is ready to accept again. Staff expect a jam of monstrous proportions when "Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America" opens May 1.
It coincides with the last weekend of New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, an event that annually attracts tens of thousands of people in Crescent City. The exhibition runs through August 29, providing an attraction during the summer months when tourism Ebbs. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be Degas's famous painting "A Cotton Office in New Orleans," a scene in which his uncle, two brothers, cousins of different models were used for staff in dark cotton suit. He became the 19th century, the first Impressionist painting to be bought by a French museum, and the work will be loaned by the Museum of Fine Arts Pau, France. Before landing the cotton office painting, New Orleans had to compete with Atlanta, which currently houses a large exhibition of French impressionists. "We felt we had," Feigenbaum said. "It was important for us to get work."
During the past month, couriers brought Other valuable works of Degas in France, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Bahamas, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Boston Museum of Fine Arts has sent three works, Harvard University and the Fogg Museum has sent a song that accompanies the office table cotton. A job that comes to the attention of the public is "the nurse (nurse), "a gouache representing a hospital vigil. He was kept in a safe and private hidden for nearly 40 years. In addition, relatives of the artist, helped other devices. New Orleans was the home of his mother, Celestine Musson Degas, and a number of descendants of the Musson family still live here. Feigenbaum had only one year to get the collection after the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism has requested a special event at the Louisiana-France festival. In general, four years needed to develop such projects. "Our plan may be only a dozen works, something very intimate," he said. But museums and private collectors have responded quickly and generously because New Orleans was a special place for Degas. When the artist joined his two brothers here, the city was still under occupation by federal troops after the Civil War.
Despite the reconstruction and the pest eats the joy of life City, Degas lived in New Orleans Exotica Paris, which seems almost commonplace. In the midst of a great river, the Mississippi and the rich foliage, Degas was introduced to a world of Southern customs, racial passions, and pagan holidays. He discovered the "free people of color" – Creoles with African blood – among his cousins in New Orleans, along with other relatives, future members of the notorious White League, drew a violent insurgency against U.S. forces. There was mourning the oaks in City Park, and the family America's dysfunctional governed by Degas. His brother Rene married a cousin, then left to escape with another siren in New Orleans. It was the stuff of opera 19th century soap. In his report of 1997 book "Degas in New Orleans," Christopher Benfey wrote: "The trip to New Orleans marked a turning point Degas's career …. Distracted and stalled in his profession, to his arrival, left the city with a new sense of direction and determination. Also took with him in his wallet and his mind, several unforgettable images of life in New Orleans. "the house of his uncle, where Degas stayed, still stands on the esplanade, a promenade that connects the French Quarter and the city park. The house is located near the venerable thoroughbred track in the city, the fairgrounds. Racehorses have been a favorite theme of Degas. "We can only assume he went to the fair," Feigenbaum said. "We tried, but there can be no images of his career in New Orleans. "
However, the city was clearly the source of other obsessions of the artist. Degas was fascinated by his cousin, Estelle, the young widow of a soldier Confederation. "We can not watch without thinking that face this head are the eyes of a dying Degas once wrote. Later, when he went blind, Estelle became the wife of brother despised by Degas. His sad face is represented in several books, including a portrait in the permanent collection of New Orleans Museum of Art local people at home through a public subscription drive 30 years ago. Degas went back to France after 1873 and never Mardi Gras returned. But he kept sketches and memories of New Orleans. Years later, when his contemporary Paul Gauguin considered the South Seas as a framework for his art, Degas New Orleans recommends instead. Of course, the islands of the South Seas were strange, Degas said, but New Orleans has emerged as one of the most exotic places the world.
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