Degas's Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
1881 · Work
A wax ballet student in a real tutu, bodice and hair ribbon, shown at the 1881 Impressionist exhibition — critics found her ugly and shockingly real; the only sculpture Degas ever exhibited.
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