Degas & Cassatt A Solitary Dance

One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting her, the American painter Mary Cassatt whom we follow closely as well. And it is in the company of the latter that at the twilight of his life, Efa and Rubio open the pages of Degas's notebooks to try to unravel the mystery of this genius steeped in contradictions.

EFA is a pen name for Ricard Fernandez, a Spanish artist who left school at 16 to pursue his dream of being in comics. He has since published quite a few graphic novels and series. He also did the art for the superb Monet and Django (Reinhardt) biographies (NBM). Salva Rubio, is a Spanish writer specialized in history. With a master’ s degree in scriptwriting, he has been involved in many documentaries, short and feature length films. He also wrote the Monet and Django (Reinhardt) biographies with Efa (NBM).