The Phillips Collection

Lichtenstein, Roy, Imperfect Diptych [from the Imperfect Series], 1988, Woodcut, screen print, and collage on museum board; overall: 57 7/8 in x 97 3/4 in; 147.0025 cm x 248.285 cm. Gift of Sidney Stolz and David Hatfield, 2009. Works on Paper, 2009.005.0001, American. Text from the Phillips Collection website.

Murray, Elizabeth, The Sun and the Moon, 2004-2005, Oil on panel mounted on wood; overall: 117 in x 107 1/2 in; 297.18 cm x 273.05 cm. Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro and Gifford and Joann Phillips, 2006. Paintings, 2006.019.0001, American. Text from the Phillips Collection website.

Scully, Sean, Niels, 2001, Oil on canvas; overall: 75 in x 85 in.; 190.5 cm x 215.9 cm. Gift of Helena and Ramis Barquet, 2008. Paintings, 2008.001.0001, American. Text from the Phillips Collection website.

Dancers at the Barre Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas 1834-1917 Nationality: French Creating Date: ca. 1900 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 38 1/2 in.; 130.175 x 97.79 cm Credit Line: Acquired 1944 Dancers at the Bar exemplifies Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s ability, late in his career, to allow the expressive application of medium and color to overtake the rationality of subject and composition. The motif of a dancer with her leg propped up on a practice bar appears as early as the mid-1870’s and continues to around 1900. This work is one of the latest representations. Phillips called the painting a “masterpiece (which) in its monumentality… is unique among all (Degas’s) decorations celebrating… dancers. (In its) daring record of instantaneous change at a split second of observation (he) miraculously… transformed the incident of swiftly seen shapes in time into a thrilling vision of dynamic forms in space.” Text from: www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0479

Dancers at the Barre Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas 1834-1917 Nationality: French Creating Date: ca. 1900 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 38 1/2 in.; 130.175 x 97.79 cm Credit Line: Acquired 1944 Dancers at the Bar exemplifies Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s ability, late in his career, to allow the expressive application of medium and color to overtake the rationality of subject and composition. The motif of a dancer with her leg propped up on a practice bar appears as early as the mid-1870’s and continues to around 1900. This work is one of the latest representations. Phillips called the painting a “masterpiece (which) in its monumentality… is unique among all (Degas’s) decorations celebrating… dancers. (In its) daring record of instantaneous change at a split second of observation (he) miraculously… transformed the incident of swiftly seen shapes in time into a thrilling vision of dynamic forms in space.” Text from: www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0479

Dancers at the Barre Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas 1834-1917 Nationality: French Creating Date: ca. 1900 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 38 1/2 in.; 130.175 x 97.79 cm Credit Line: Acquired 1944 Dancers at the Bar exemplifies Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s ability, late in his career, to allow the expressive application of medium and color to overtake the rationality of subject and composition. The motif of a dancer with her leg propped up on a practice bar appears as early as the mid-1870’s and continues to around 1900. This work is one of the latest representations. Phillips called the painting a “masterpiece (which) in its monumentality… is unique among all (Degas’s) decorations celebrating… dancers. (In its) daring record of instantaneous change at a split second of observation (he) miraculously… transformed the incident of swiftly seen shapes in time into a thrilling vision of dynamic forms in space.” Text from: www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0479

Dancers at the Barre Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas 1834-1917 Nationality: French Creating Date: ca. 1900 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 51 1/4 x 38 1/2 in.; 130.175 x 97.79 cm Credit Line: Acquired 1944 Dancers at the Bar exemplifies Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas’s ability, late in his career, to allow the expressive application of medium and color to overtake the rationality of subject and composition. The motif of a dancer with her leg propped up on a practice bar appears as early as the mid-1870’s and continues to around 1900. This work is one of the latest representations. Phillips called the painting a “masterpiece (which) in its monumentality… is unique among all (Degas’s) decorations celebrating… dancers. (In its) daring record of instantaneous change at a split second of observation (he) miraculously… transformed the incident of swiftly seen shapes in time into a thrilling vision of dynamic forms in space.” Text from: www.phillipscollection.org/collection/browse-the-collection?id=0479