Join us as we go to one of the biggest exhibitions of the winter calendar, Degas and Ballet, Picturing Movement.

This landmark exhibition focuses on Edgar Degas’s preoccupation with movement as an artist of the dance. Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement traces the development of the artist's ballet imagery throughout his career, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous expressiveness of his final years.

Blink and you might miss it could have been another subtitle for this show. Owing to the delicacy of pastel works on paper, it will not tour after its three-month run. So this is a rare opportunity to see a representative sweep of work by the Painter of Dancers.

It also concerns the fleeting aspects of movement which the human eye had never before caught. From his vantage point in the late 19th century, Edgar Degas was keeping pace with the revelatory developments in photography. He perhaps lost a race with early film.

The exhibition is the first to present Degas’s progressive engagement with the figure in movement in the context of parallel advances in photography and early film; indeed, the artist was keenly aware of these technological developments and often directly involved with them.

Tickets are £15.50. Please book a ticket for 12.00 admission. 

As usual we will go for a drink/meal after the exhibition.

Looking forward to it!