Dancer, Ready to Dance, Right Foot Forward
Dancer ready to Dance

Copyright

Work in the public domain
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Maker

(Artists)
1834-1917
(Foundry)

Title

Dancer, Ready to Dance, Right Foot Forward
Dancer ready to Dance

Date of Production

c. 1885

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

Height: 56.3 cm
Width: 32.6 cm
Depth: 22 cm

Object Number

S.2006.LB.1

Mode of Acquisition

HM Government (Acceptance in Lieu), allocation, 2006

Credit

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2006.

Location

On display
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Label Text

About 150 clay and wax sculptures, mostly of dancers and horses, were discovered in Edgar Degas’s studio after his death. His family had a number of these cast in bronze.

Private and experimental works, the originals were often strengthened with ordinary items such as cork or matches. Here, a bit of wire sticks out of the dancer’s right hand.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Degas signature stamped on base

Inscription: inscription : numbered and stamped with the foundry mark : on base : : 57/K Cire Perdue A.A. Hébrard //

Provenance

Walther Halvorsen, London, 1923; bought by Lillian Browse from Colnaghi London, after 1949; Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 2006.

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme (Pilot) - Degas' Dancers, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 11/03/2016-19/06/2016
Summer Showcase - Unfinished, Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2015-20/09/2015
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Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909-29, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 25/09/2010-16/01/2011
The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010
Lillian Browse Memorial Exhibition, Browse and Darby, London, 27/11/2006-01/12/2006
A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 12/02/1983-10/04/1983
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Literature

A Private Collection of late 19th and 20th century Paintings and Sculpture, Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, 1983
cat. no. 74

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