The Little Dancers - After Degas Sculpture

This piece is part of an exhibition, Getting Under the Skin, currently showing at the Westminster Arts Reference Library situated in London’s West End just behind the National Gallery. The show features 10 famous works of art reimagined by Field and Young as taxidermy tableaux to reflect the Library’s vast art and design collection. Edgar Degas produced around 1,500 work of art on the theme of ballet. The original version of his “The Fourteen-Year-Old Little Dancer “ (1880-1) was a wax model, adorned with actual human hair and dressed in a real ballerina’s tutu, which led critics to dismiss it as something out of Madame Tussaud’s. The work was cast in bronze in 1922, five years after Degas’s death. Field & Young’s tribute features ballerina squirrels, practising their relevés and pirouettes in front of a dance studio mirror. Their tutus are handmade from satin and tulle. Both little dancers were roadkill found by the A13 in Essex.

Multi-paneled Sculpture:Taxidermy on Glass

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27.6 W x 27.6 H x 7.9 D in

Number of Pieces:2

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