Beschrijving
Dancer ready to dance, right foot forward is a sculpture by Degas, who took up sculpture from the late 1860s and focused especially on ballerinas. He modelled his figures in a very soft mixture of wax and clay, strengthening them with everyday things such as matchsticks, wire and wine corks; here a bit of wire armature pokes out of the right hand. Degas never had any of his sculpture cast in bronze. The base carries the foundry mark Cire Perdue A.A. Hébrard and his stamped signature.
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