Grande Arabesque, Deuxieme Temps, 1882-85
Bronze
height 48 cms
height 18 7/8 ins
height 18 7/8 ins
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The artist Walter Sickert recalls visiting Degas’s studio at night and watching him slowly revolve his sculptures on a stand in front of a lit candle so that he could judge each piece’s movement from the huge shadow it cast upon the wall.
The artist Walter Sickert recalls visiting Degas’s studio at night and watching him slowly revolve his sculptures on a stand in front of a lit candle so that he could judge each piece’s movement from the huge shadow it cast upon the wall.
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