Degas collection goes under hammer at Sotheby'sSeveral works by French impressionist painter Edgar Degas Noun 1. Edgar Degas - French impressionist painter (1834-1917) Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas will go under the hammer at Sotheby's on November 3, the auction house said Friday. The chief attraction is the 1879 masterpiece "Danseuse" (dancer), valued at 40 million dollars, which Degas Degas To release and vent gases. New building materials often give off gases and odors and the air should be well circulated to remove them. Mentioned in: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sold in 1885 to a friend, whose family kept it for more than a century until it was sold in London 1995. It is part of a famous series of Degas dancers and dancing studios he painted in 1870. It shows a Paris Opera ballerina resting behind theater curtains. "This sublime pastel captures the essence of Degas' work and is a quintessential Impressionist masterpiece," said Sotheby's vice president for modern and impressionist art Emmanuel Di-Donna. Other Degas works coming under the hammer include "Le Ballet" (1885)," "Femme femme adj. Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men. n. 1. Slang One who is femme. 2. Informal A woman or girl. se coiffant," and two sculptures, "Le Tub" et "Etude e·tude n. Music 1. A piece composed for the development of a specific point of technique. 2. A composition featuring a point of technique but performed because of its artistic merit. nu pour la danseuse habillée." The November 3 auction will also include Pablo Picasso's "Arlequin," valued at more than 30 million dollars and Russian painter Kazimir Malevitch's "Suprematism suprematism, Russian art movement founded (1913) by Casimir Malevich in Moscow, parallel to constructivism. Malevich drew Aleksandr Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to his revolutionary, nonobjective art. " (1916), valued at more than 60 million dollars. 
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