Dancer: Arabesque on Right Leg, Left Arm in Line
date: label: Date
content: (c. 1877-1885)/(cast c. 1919-1931)
name: label: Artist
content: Edgar Degas, French, b. Paris, 1834–1917
notes: label: Provenance
content: Mme A.A. Hébrard (widow of Adrien of the Foundry / Galerie Hébrard), Paris
label: Provenance
content: M. Knoedler, New York, to 22 October 1958 (#A7075, with provenance, identified as one of the sets "reserved for the founder")
label: Provenance
content: Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 22 October 1958-17 May 1966
label: Provenance
content: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
label: Exhibition History
content: DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. "Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn," 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 25, ill. p. 19. Tour: MILWAUKEE ART CENTER, 10 September-11 October; WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, 25 October-6 December; WILLIAM ROCKHILL NELSON GALLERY OF ART, Kansas City, Missouri, 20 December-31 January 1960; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 1-27 March; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, 11 April-15 May; M. H. DE YOUNG MEMORIAL MUSEUM, San Francisco, 29 May-10 July; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER, Colorado, 24 July-4 September; ART GALLERY OF TORONTO, 30 September-31 October.
label: Exhibition History
content: SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 107, p. 212, ill. p. 43.
label: Exhibition History
content: MARLBOROUGH-GERSON GALLERY, New York. "Artist and Maecenas: A Tribute to Curt Valentin," November-December 1963, no. 13, ill. p. 28.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, fig. 82, p. 67, p. 680.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (organizer). "The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum." TOUR: TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM, China, 25 March-28 May 1995, p. 42, ill. p. 43; separate catalogue for Japan, no. 1, ill. p. 49. TOUR: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SHIGA, Otsu, Japan, 1 July-6 August 1995; ODAKYU MUSEUM, Tokyo, 9 August-28 August 1995; IWAKI CITY ART MUSEUM, 23 September-5 November 1995; TAKAMATSU CITY MUSEUM OF ART, 10 November-10 December 1995.
label: Exhibition History
content: HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta, Georgia. "Degas and America: The Early Collectors," 28 February-27 May 2001. TOUR: MINNEAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, 19 June-9 September.
label: Exhibition History
content: NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA - 2003
label: Exhibition History
content: JANE VORHEES ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM, New Brunswick, NJ. "Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Degas," 23 October 2005-12 March 2006, fig. 177.
label: Exhibition History
content: ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA, Edmonton. "Degas: Figures in Motion," 22 January-30 May 2010.
label: Published References
content: REWALD, JOHN. Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York: Pantheon, 1944), no. 42, p. 24, ill. p. 97. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
label: Published References
content: REWALD, JOHN. Degas Sculpture (New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1956), no. 42, p. 150, plate 36. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
label: Published References
content: JACOBY, MAUREEN R., ed. The Official Guide to the Smithsonian (CBS Publication, 1973), p. 105.
label: Published References
content: LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 680, ill. 82 p. 67.
label: Published References
content: MILLARD, CHARLES W. The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), p. 24.
label: Published References
content: Illustration: School Arts 77/2 (October 1977), colorplate p. 35 (as c. 1882-95).
label: Published References
content: STUMPF, SAMUEL E. Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction (New York : McGraw-Hill, 1979), ill. p. 14.
label: Published References
content: LEFTON, LESTER A. Psychology (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1985), ill. p. 60 (as c. 1882-95).
label: Published References
content: REWALD, JOHN. Degas's complete sculpture (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1990), no. 42, pp. 122-23.
label: Published References
content: PINGEOT, ANNE. Degas Sculptures (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1991), no. 4, p. 154.
label: Published References
content: CAMPBELL, SARA. "A catalogue of Degas' bronzes," Apollo 142/402 (August 1995), no. 3, unmarked cast, p. 12.
label: Published References
content: MARTINEZ, BENJAMIN and JACQUELINE BLOCK. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design 2nd ed. (New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs/Prentice Hall, 1995), fig. B, p. 185.
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content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66.1296
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Bronze
label: Dimensions
content: 12 x 16 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. (30.5 x 42.7 x 9.5 cm)