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"description": "Monotypes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-July 5, 1981).",
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"title": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland",
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"title": "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints",
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"title": "Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe",
"description": "Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (organizer) (September 16, 2005-January 15, 2006).",
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"title": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris",
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"title": "Degas at the Opera",
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"did_you_know": "Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy once co-authored a play, La Cigale, in which one of the characters was clearly based on Edgar Degas.",
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"description": "This print comes from a series of more than 30 monotypes that Degas planned as illustrations for La Famille Cardinal by the artist\u2019s friend Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy. The satirical stories revolve around two young dancers at the Op\u00e9ra, Pauline and Virginie Cardinal, and their procuress mother. In late 19th-century Paris, the ballet was the profession of lower-class girls and young women who were available for sexual hire. Here, in the opening scene, Hal\u00e9vy, the first-person narrator, meets with Madame Cardinal in the coulisses (wings) of the Op\u00e9ra to arrange for a private rendezvous with one of her daughters. The dancers, whose sexual availability is the subtext of the composition, are conspicuously absent.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 303-304, fig. 4",
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"citation": "Pickvance, Ronald. Degas 1879. Exh. Cat. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1979.",
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"citation": "Sutton, Denys. Edgar Degas: Life and Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1986.",
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"citation": "Brown, Kathryn. \"Intimacy and Exclusion: Degas's Illustrations for Ludovic Hal\u00e9vy's La Famille Cardinal.\" In Perspectives on Degas, ed. Kathryn Brown. New York: Routledge, 2017.",
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"citation": "Brown, Kathryn. \"An \"Anti-spectacular\" Art.\" In Degas: A Strange New Beauty. Jodi Hauptman, 122-135. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016.",
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