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Dancer Putting on her Stocking
Presented by the Art Fund 1951
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
arts and entertainment
bending forward
clothing and personal items
dancer
dressing / undressing
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stocking
woman
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<p>Resting on a small base, the figure is shown in mid-movement, in a pose that could not be long sustained by either a dancer or a professional model. Movement was one of the great themes of Degas' art, whether it was that of a ballet dancer or of a racehorse. Degas was familiar with the high-speed photographs of Eadweard Muybridge, and is known to have based certain drawings and sculptures on them. This work may have been suggested by a Muybridge photograph of 1887, titled 'Woman Sitting Down in Chair and Pulling on Stocking'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
sculpture bronze
11 February 2002 – 21 April 2002
2002-04-21
11 February 2002 – 21 April 2002
2002-04-21
2002-02-11
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
2002-02-11
The Body in the Twentieth Century
Tate partnerships & programmes
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-06-21
International Modern Art
Collection based display
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-04
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2008-10-04
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Exhibition
24 May 2024 – 30 September 2024
2024-09-30
24 May 2024 – 30 September 2024
2024-09-30
2024-05-24
Burrell Collection (Glasgow, UK)
2024-05-24
Degas and Britain
Loan-out
Dancer Putting on her Stocking
object: 470 × 222 × 267 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1951
<p>Resting on a small base, the figure is shown in mid-movement, in a pose that could not be long sustained by either a dancer or a professional model. Movement was one of the great themes of Degas' art, whether it was that of a ballet dancer or of a racehorse. Degas was familiar with the high-speed <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> of Eadweard Muybridge, and is known to have based certain <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptures</span></a> on them. This work may have been suggested by a Muybridge photograph of 1887, titled 'Woman Sitting Down in Chair and Pulling on Stocking'.</p>
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<p><b>Edgar Degas</b><span> 1834-1917 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/degas-dancer-putting-on-her-stocking-n05918" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05918</span></a> </span><b>Danseuse mettant son Bas (Dancer putting on her Stocking) </b><i>c</i><span>.1900-5 </span>
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<p><span>Stamped 'Degas', '29/F' and founder's stamp 'CIRE | PERDUE | A.A. HÉBRARD' on base</span>
<br/><span>Bronze, 18 1/8 x 7 1/2 x 12 (46 x 19 x 30.5), the width including the projecting base</span>
<br/><span>Presented by the National Art-Collections Fund 1951</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
NACF (purchased from the founder A.A. Hébrard, Paris, through the Leicester Galleries, London, 1923)</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>Works in Sculpture of Edgar Degas</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, February-March 1923 (14); lent by the NACF to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1923-6; </span><i>Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1926 (works not numbered); on loan to the Tate Gallery from 1926 until presented</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
John Rewald, </span><i>Degas: Works in Sculpture</i><span> (New York 1944), No.LVI, p.26, repr. p.121; John Rewald, </span><i>Degas: Sculpture</i><span> (London 1957), No.LVI, p.154, repr. pl.74; Mich?le Beaulieu, 'Les Sculptures de Degas: Essai de Chronologie' in </span><i>Revue du Louvre</i><span>, XIX, No.6, 1969, p.380; Charles W. Millard, </span><i>The Sculpture of Edgar Degas</i><span> (Princeton 1976), p.69, wax repr. pl.104 </span>
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<p><span>Degas made at least two other <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptures</span></a> of this attitude (Rewald Nos.LVII and LVIII). All are assigned by Rewald to the period 1896-1911, on account of their vigorous sketchy finish; this would appear to be one of the first versions. The original is in brown wax and has pieces of wire wound around the raised foot. Charles W. Millard has pointed out that the pose is clearly related to a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> of a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>Classical</span></a> figure from Degas' student days. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.154-5, reproduced p.154 </span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults arts and entertainment bending forward clothing and personal items dancer dressing / undressing female nudes objects people stocking woman work and occupations