Boca Raton Museum of Art's Record-Breaking Exhibit

Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures TO CLOSE APRIL 27

BOCA RATON, Fla., March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Boca Raton Museum of Art announces record-breaking attendance during its world-class exhibition Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures. There is still time to catch the exhibition, which will be on display through April 27, 2008.

One of the most important artists of the 19th century, the French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas (1834-1917) spent his entire life investigating the figure in motion through countless studies of ballerinas, racehorses, and bathers. Degas in Bronze offers an extremely rare opportunity to view 73 sculptures, posthumously cast in bronze from Degas' original composite and wax models. This collection is one of only four comprehensive sets of bronzes cast by Hebrard in the 1920's and after from Degas' original fragile statuettes. The bronzes in this exhibition are on loan from the collections of MASP, Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures is organized by Joseph S. Czestochowski, International Arts.

During the Boca Raton Museum of Art's exhibition, the bronzes have been augmented by a selection of Degas prints and drawings to provide visitors with a fuller view of the artist's creative genius for representing the figure in motion.

The Boca Raton Museum of Art's presentation of Degas in Bronze is supported in part by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities, The Estate of Simone Stakolt Tolksdorf, an anonymous Patron of the Arts, The City of Boca Raton, and The Bernard and Mary Jane Pollack Foundation.

During the Degas and Tiffany Exhibitions the Boca Raton Museum of Art will be open Sunday and Monday 12pm - 5pm; Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays 10am - 5pm; Wednesday and Friday 10am - 9pm. Admission is $20 for adults, $17 for senior citizens (65 and older), $15 per person for group tours and $6 for students. For more information visit www.bocamuseum.org.

The Boca Raton Museum of Art has evolved into one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida achieving international recognition as a world-class visual arts institution, presenting dynamic traveling exhibitions from acclaimed and emerging artists, and an outstanding permanent collection. Some of the Museum's programs include the artist lectures, family programs, the International Film Series, and more than 98 classes per week at its studio Art School.