The Private Life of a Masterpiece

Edgar Degas: La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans

S7 • E2    Jan 15, 2006    50m
The statue of the young girl in a real ballet dress is often seen today just as a pretty image of dancer making one of the classic moves of ballet. But to the people who first saw the statue when it was unveiled it was a dangerous, even disgraceful, portrayal of a degenerate girl little more than a whore. The programme reveals the story of the real woman who Degas used as a model and includes revelations about how the statue as actually made.

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  • Samuel West

 

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