Edgar Degas showed his work with the Impressionists but never liked the name, and he did not paint outdoors the way Monet and Renoir did. His world was indoors and backstage, and the subject he came back to more than any other was the ballet. This Degas wall art is three of those dancer paintings, framed or on canvas, made to order in our shop in the USA.
The Three Paintings
Dancers in Pink, from around 1880, owned by the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut — the warmest of the three, saturated pink against a green-gold stage.
Dancers, Pink and Green, from around 1890, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: dancers in blue-green tutus waiting in the wings, one adjusting a shoulder strap, the moment before they go on rather than the performance itself. That was Degas's habit — rehearsals, stretching, waiting — and it is why his dancers look like people rather than poses.
Dancers in Blue, from around 1893, at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris: four dancers in matching blue tutus fussing over their costumes, painted in the years his eyesight was failing and his color was growing bolder.
Choosing For The Room
These are bought for dancers more than for anyone else — a studio, a girl's bedroom, the wall above a practice barre — and for anyone who took ballet as a child and still remembers it. Dancers in Pink is the softest and suits a nursery or a little girl's room. Pink and Green and Dancers in Blue are cooler and more grown-up, and sit well in a bedroom or a dressing area.
All three hang together as a set. The costumes change color, but the subject and the hand do not.
Framed Or Canvas
Framed prints come in four frame colors — Barnwood, Charcoal, Black, and Walnut — with an easel back, so the smaller sizes can stand on a shelf as well as hang. Canvas is a 1-inch gallery wrap that hangs without nails or tools, with a floating frame as the upgrade for a more finished edge. Everything is printed and finished to order in our family-owned shop in the USA.
A Gift Note
For a recital, the last year at a dance school, or a teacher retiring after decades of lessons, a Degas says the thing without the card having to. Dancers in Blue is the one for a dancer who has outgrown pink.
Dancers in Blue Degas Canvas Print, a Paris Opera Ballet Scene
This dancers in blue degas canvas print reproduces Danseuses bleues, four ballerinas in deep-blue tutus adjusting their costumes together backstage, painted by Edgar Degas around 1893 and now held at the Musee d'Orsay.
Degas returned to ballet dancers throughout his career, drawn to the unposed moments before and after a performance rather than the dance itself, and this canvas captures exactly that kind of quiet, unguarded instant.
Printed and gallery-wrapped by hand in our family-owned workshop in Northeast Ohio; the canvas hangs securely without nails or tools and removes cleanly without wall damage.
Choose the classic gallery-wrapped edge or upgrade to the floating frame for extra depth.
Dancers in Pink by Edgar Degas Framed Wall Art Print, Beautiful Degas Ballerinas, Living Room or Bedroom Wall Art 11x14 2424
Dancers in Pink Canvas Print by Edgar Degas, Ballet Wall Art
This dancers in pink canvas print reproduces Edgar Degas's ballet study from the 1880s, a single dancer glowing in a saturated pink tutu against a deep green backdrop.
Housed today at the Hill-Stead Museum, it is a smaller, more intimate ballet study than Degas's crowded rehearsal scenes, built around one dancer alone.
Made in the USA by our family-owned shop, it comes in 14x11 and 20x16, gallery-wrapped or floating frame, and hangs without nails or tools.
Dancers, Pink and Green by Edgar Degas Framed Wall Art Print, Beautiful Degas Ballerinas, Living Room or Bedroom Wall Art, 11x14, 2421
Dancers, Pink and Green Canvas Print by Edgar Degas, Ballet Art
This dancers pink and green canvas print reproduces Edgar Degas's backstage ballet scene, five dancers in blue-green tutus and coral bodices waiting in the wings, signed “Degas” lower right.
Painted around 1890, it captures the quiet backstage pause Degas returned to again and again, more candid than a formal ballet portrait.
Made in the USA by our family-owned shop, it comes in 11x14 and 16x20, gallery-wrapped or floating frame, and hangs without nails or tools.