For many years, “Interior” was referred to as “The Rape.” Several writers who knew Degas personally said this was the title he intended. Other friends, however, said he was “incensed ...

(It’s his one blockbusterish entry.) Degas’s “Interior,” 1868–69, by a dark-minded realist artist, shows a looming figure and hints at a molestation in progress.Credit...via Philadelphia ...

Edgar Degas’ portrayals of ballet dancers are so widely reproduced as to have become his trademark. What the ubiquity of these images does not account for is his love and knowledge of the music ...

There’s a mysterious and enigmatic dimension to Degas’ painting where the birds are free, while the parrot in Manet’s painting is domestic and inside a bourgeois interior.” Isolde ...

Another undeniable highlight is Interior (1868-69), sometimes called The Rape. Degas called it "my genre picture", and gave nothing away to his critics. It is a scene with a powerful sexual ...

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