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The Nude Dancer (French: La danseuse nue) is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Pierre-Louis and starring Catherine Erard, Pierre Larquey and Jean Debucourt. The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin. It is based on the interwar career of music hall star Colette Andris.
Edgar Degas' Study in the Nude of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (Nude Little Dancer), c. 1878-1881 is the subject of a new show at the Kennedy Center starring Tiler Peck. National Gallery of Art ...
The largest of the wax models, the Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer was also cast in multiples. Hébrard’s chief bronze founder, Albino Palazzolo, used the wax sculpture to create two plaster models (now in the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and they served as the basis for twenty-nine known ...
He primarily viewed his sculpture as a means of researching movement and publicly exhibited only one, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–1881). Degas was frequently criticized for depicting unattractive models from Paris’ working class, but others, like realist novelist Edmond de Goncourt, championed Degas as “the one who has been able to ...
She later acquired the first bronze cast of the Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (lettered A, but not numbered), which had been omitted from the initial series. In 1929 Mrs. Havemeyer bequeathed Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer and 70 of the 72 Edition A Degas bronzes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Paired piece molds of the legs with poured plaster core; h. While plaster core inside molds of the legs still wet, upper sections attached; i. Once plaster core set, piece molds removed to reveal Study in the Nude of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen without arms. Ultimately, for reasons that remain unknown, Degas partially cast this sculpture.
“Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” (1878-81) is the centerpiece here. To the left is something the musical omitted — Degas’s nude statue of her, devoid of sexual prurience or allure, subtly ...
