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Peter Campbell, 4 July 1985
Degas: His Life, Times and Work
by Roy McMullen.
Secker, 517 pp., £18.50, March 1985,9780436276477 Show More
by Roy McMullen.
Secker, 517 pp., £18.50, March 1985,
Degas: The Dancers
by George Shackelford.
Norton, 151 pp., £22.95, March 1985,0 393 01975 6 Show More
by George Shackelford.
Norton, 151 pp., £22.95, March 1985,
Degas Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings
by Götz Adriani.
Thames and Hudson, 408 pp., £35, May 1985,0 500 09168 4 Show More
by Götz Adriani.
Thames and Hudson, 408 pp., £35, May 1985,
Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot
by Rémy de Saisselin.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £12.50, February 1985,0 500 23424 8 Show More
by Rémy de Saisselin.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £12.50, February 1985,
“... a cold in my head, on celibacy, and three-quarters of what I have been saying to myself is sad.’ McMullen sifts through a lot of evidence, much of it gossip, and comes to the conclusion that he was impotent. Van Gogh saw him as an artist-anchorite: Why do you say that Degas has trouble having erections? Degas lives like a little notary and does not love ... ”
