Reproduction hand painted of the painting
Four Dancers (Degas)

Housed at the National Gallery of Art, this late work by Degas shows four dancers in a twilight landscape. Their costumes, in shades of red and yellow, contrast with the dark greenery of the setting. The figures seem to merge into the landscape, their forms treated with the same textured touch as the surrounding nature. It is a poetic and enigmatic scene, where the line between stage and reality, between dream and observation, becomes blurred. Degas here explores the possibilities of color and texture to create a mood rather than describing a literal scene.