Of course Degas executed well over a thousand paintings and drawings of the ballet (actually I read somewhere - over 2,000 - I have been trying to relocate this fact - I will investigate and report back). My point at this time however is that he often worked directly on colored paper like this one entitled Dancers At The Bar (essence on green paper). He combined paper and just a few touches of oil paint. Like many of his other preliminary sketches this one exists as a work of art in its own right. Just for fun I did this painting using oil on black paper. Will it be as timeless as a Degas?
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