Mariel Oberthür

Mariel Oberthür is a historian and author, she published in 2018, Edgar Degas in Normandy: the painter of the horse and the races, Gourcuff Gradenigo editions.

Edgar Degas, one of the founders of the Impressionist movement, was often considered a precursor in his art. This avant-garde side can be seen in his paintings and sculptures of horses, especially at the races at Le Pin.

Mariel Oberthür with Edgar Degas in Normandy : The Painter of the Horse and the Races offers an in-depth study of the French painter's work devoted to racehorses. She exposes the artist's compositional techniques, sketches and wax figures, which allowed him to perfect the expression of movement in his paintings of equestrian subjects and refutes certain preconceived ideas about his sources of inspiration.