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Little Dancer aged Fourteen
Artist: Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Location: Tate
Date: 1880 - 1881
Materials: bronze with muslin tutu and satin hair ribbon
Dimensions: 99 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £6,000 (Total: £9,076)
Vendor: Marlborough Fine Art
Review number: 1681 (1952)
Provenance:
M Henri Puvis de Chavannes (son-in-law of Hebrard, the founder who cast all Degas' sculpture).
Description:
Dressed in muslin tutu, with satin ribbon tied round her hair. The original wax statuette also had the face coloured and wore satin shoes. The only sculpture by Degas exhibited in his lifetime.
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