Many people know that Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French artist and
leading light of Impressionism, whose paintings brilliantly capture the
movement of ballet dancers. What, perhaps, they don't know is that by
his mid-twenties he had made over 700 copies of other artists' works;
that he produced 1,500 studies of ballet dancers; and that, although
Degas exhibited only one sculpture in his lifetime, 150 wax figures were
found in his studio after his death. This book presents an instant
impression of his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and
figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the
pictures.