One of Edgar Degas’ iconic “Little Dancer” sculptures broke the artist’s auction record when it sold from the collection of the late Anne Bass.
Bass acquired the sculpture from, the daughter of industrialist Charles Shipman Payson and his wife Joan Whitney Payson, a member of the prominent Whitney family and the first woman to own a major-league baseball team that she did not inherit .
The original wax “Little Dancer” sculpture featured real hair, was dressed in a cloth tutu and caused a scene in 1881 when Degas first exhibited it in Paris, where critics called it"quite simply hideous” and a"flower of precocious depravity,” a reference to fact that ballet dancers in that era often.
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