Blue Dancers ~ Degas

Location : The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Year: 1897 Pastel on Paper
This pastel painting, which was painted in his late careers, shows 'mirror images' of 4 dancers viewed form above.Two dancers on the right practically identical except for the direction of their heads. Degas often created 'mirror images' simply by tracing over and pressing paper over a charcoal sketch and reworking the reversed image. In this painting, he had begun to view his subject from close-up.