Degas Ballerina Paintings

The popularity of Edgar Degas increased when he began painting ballet dancers. Ballet Dancers soon became his most widely painted subjects, and his ballet dancer art quickly became a best seller. His most well known and controversial piece of ballet dancer art is called "The Dance Class(Le Classe de Danse)," and is another oil on canvas painting.
"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory." -Edgar Degas