Ballerina Degas Bronze Little Ballet Dancer Sculpture

This Ballerina Degas Bronze Little Ballet Dancer Sculpture would make a great addition to any home. Its made with very fine detail. She would make a spectacular display that would get admiration from everyone. Degas captured the movement and beauty of ballerinas in various mediums, from paintings to sculptures, this is one of his most famous pieces. The original sculpture is currently in the National Museum of Art. This would also be a great gift for a friend on a special occasion. This bronze sculpture will last forever as it comes with a corrosion free guarantee because bronze cannot rust or corrode.

Edgar Degas created a sensation when he presented his Little Dancer sculpture at the Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1881. His intention was to portray a young girl who dreamed of having an “illustrious life” in ballet, but who also kept “her identity as a girl from the streets of Paris.”

The public, accustomed to sculptures that showcased idealized women in marble, was outraged that Degas’s work depicted such a common subject—a young dancer drawn from everyday life and whose attitude reflected nothing goddess-like or heroic. Moreover, instead of chiseling her nobly in marble, he had rendered her in beeswax and found objects. In the face of rampant public disapproval, Degas removed the sculpture from display and stored it in a closet, where it resided in anonymity for the next four decades until financier Paul Mellon acquired the original wax sculpture in 1956 and gifted it to the National Gallery of Art in 1985.

Size 12 X 11 X 29cm
Code BA1211

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