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Edgar Degas

Grand Arabesque, Second Time
Now On View

Maker

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
A.A. Hebrard, foundry or carver

Title

Grand Arabesque, Second Time

Year

ca. 1885-1890 (cast ca. 1919-1922)

Medium

  • bronze

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • bronze

Materials

bronze

Dimensions

42.2 x 60.6 x 27 cm (16 5/8 x 23 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, behind right foot:Degas; stamped, right base, beneath extended left foot:15/i/CIRE / PERDUE / A. A. HEBRARD

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Stephen O. Metcalf, George Pierce Metcalf and Houghton P. Metcalf

Object Number

23.315

Type

  • Sculpture

Publications

  • Books

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

  • Books

Edgar Degas: Six Friends At Dieppe

Exhibition History

Inventing Impressionism
Oct 21, 2016 – Jun 11, 2017

Label copy

Degas created numerous studies of figures in transitional poses as resources for his paintings and as guides to understanding movement. This sculpture was not intended for exhibition, but was cast in bronze after Degas’s death.

The dancer leans forward into an arabesque, extending her arms and balancing on one foot as she lifts her left leg backward. The British artist Walter Sickert (the figure standing apart from the group in Degas’s pastel Six Friends at Dieppe) saw the wax model for this work while visiting Degas’s studio, and was struck when Degas “turned the statuette slowly to show me the successive silhouettes thrown on a white sheet by the light of a candle.”

Edgar Degas
Six Friends at Dieppe
Sep 16, 2005 – Jan 15, 2006
European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937
Oct 18, 1991 – Jan 26, 1992
Raid the Icebox 1 with Andy Warhol
Apr 23, 1970 – Jun 30, 1970

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
A.A. Hebrard, foundry or carver
Grand Arabesque, Second Time, ca. 1885-1890 (cast ca. 1919-1922)
Bronze
42.2 x 60.6 x 27 cm (16 5/8 x 23 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches)
Gift of Stephen O. Metcalf, George Pierce Metcalf and Houghton P. Metcalf 23.315

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