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A new London show brings together 77 Impressionist drawings, including one Van Gogh watercolour that was found in a public bathroom.

Colour is the first impression that hits the senses on entering the Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries at the Royal Academy to see 'Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec'. Easily spotted across the first gallery space is Edgar Degas' vividly colourful Dancer Seen from Behind (c.1873) created in essence (diluted oil paint), on a bright raspberry-coloured, pink prepared paper. Right next to it is his equally riveting Dancer Yawning (Dancer Stretching), from the same ye...

Sometimes you just need to escape- Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec- you need to walk into somewhere

Degas was a wild man, Van Gogh a refined craftsman — these beautiful drawings show how art’s great master were reborn