Portrait of Mlle Fiocre in the Ballet “La Source”.Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde.The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (MET).Except for the wax “Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer,” none of the other sculptures had been publicly exhibited during the Degas’s lifetime. Most were made of wax, clay, and plasticine. Upon Degas’s death, more than 150 figurative sculptures were found in his studio. He was masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his many masterpieces of dancers, racecourse subjects, and female nudes. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although Degas rejected the term, preferring to be called a Realist. He was fond of the subject of dance, and more than half of his works depict dancers. Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was prolific in paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.
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