
08 Jul 1915

Edgar Degas Filmed Walking Down a Paris Street
Unique film of the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas captured walking down a street in Paris in 1915.
According to Bernard Cohn's review, the directors "show that the painter of British society at the beginning of the 18th century was not only ahead of his time in his aesthetic theories, but that he carried within him the signs that allow us to recognize a creator." (Positif, no. 70, June 1965, p. 73.)
08 Jul 1915
Unique film of the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas captured walking down a street in Paris in 1915.
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