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Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Title
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
Artist
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Date
modeled 1878–81, cast 1920/21
Medium
painted plaster, fabric, metal armature, on plaster base
Dimensions
39 × 19 1/2 × 20 in. (99.1 × 49.5 × 50.8 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Gift of M. Knoedler & Co.
Object Number
1971.271
On View
On view
Provenance
By descent to his daughter, Nelly Hébard, Paris.
M. de Faucemberge, Paris, by February 1956;
Purchased from M. de Faucemberge by M. Knoedler & Co., New York, February 1956–June 17, 1971;
Gift of M. Knoelder & Co. to Joslyn Art Museum, 1971.
Exhibition History
Joslyn Art Museum, lent by M. Knoedler & Co., April 27, 1962–June 17, 1971.
Degas and the Little Dancer, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, February 7–May 3, 1998, no. 45.
Published References
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1956), 144.
Dorothy Burgess, “Key to Degas’ Artistry Is Found in Spontaneity,” Omaha World-Herald, February 14, 1963, 10, (repro.).
James Bresette, “Joslyn’s Plaster Lady in Art World Spotlight,” Omaha-World Herald, June 15, 1971, 1, (repro.).
“La Chronique des Arts,” Gazettes des Beaux-Arts 1237 (February 1972): 111, (repro.).
American Museums and Galleries: An Introduction to Looking (1974), 242, (repro.).
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Pres, 1980), 34.
Jacqueline et Maurice Guillard, Degas Form and Space, exh. cat. (Paris” Centre Culturel du Marais, 1985), 181–82, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 102–4, (repro.).
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), 36.
Graham W. J. Beal et. al., Fifty Favorites from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1994), 66–67, (repro.).
Martine Kahane, Delphine Pinasa, Wilfried Piollet, and Sara Campbell, “Enquête sur la Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans de Degas,” La revue du Musée d’Orsay 7 (Automne 1998): 69. 70, (repro.).
Richard Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1998), cover, 45, 101, 105–8, 154, (repro.).
Richard Kendall, “Rediscovering Degas’s Little Dancer,” Apollo, February 1998, 11–14.
Richard Kendall, “Tutu Wars,” Art Newspaper 89, February 1999, 55.
Arthur C. Beale, “Technical Examination Methods: A Retrospective Look at Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” International Foundation for Art Research Journal 2, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 14–18.
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas––Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (New York: International Arts and Torch Press, 2002), 267.
Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2010), 125–26, 138, 141, 142, 143 n. 28, (repro.).
William D. Cohan, “Shaky Degas Dancer Gets the Silent Treatment,” Bloomberg, August 22, 2011: online.
Gregory Hedberg, Degas’ Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen: The earlier version that helped spark the birth of Modern Art (Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2016), 14, 26–27, 34, 37, 49–41, 46–49, 52, 55–56, 69–70, 86 n. 11, 87 nn. 13, 22, 30, 88 n. 47, 96 n.177, 105, 273, 276–79, 281.
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 24, 186–89, (repro.).
