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DEGAS, Edgar: Portraits at the Stock Exchange

🖼 Portraits at the Stock Exchange, 1878-79
Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas
72 × 58 cm
New York, United States

Clustered figures in dark suits dominate the trading floor, rendered with sharp, angular lines and muted tones. Degas captures the frenetic energy and masculine intensity of 19th-century finance through fragmented composition and psychological tension among the brokers.

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E. H. Gombrich
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