This elegantly beautiful cold-cast bronze ballet sculpture is from our superb range of bronze dance sculptures. She’s standing tall in position with her arms stretched behind her back. The perfect gift idea for a ballet dancer. This is a gorgeous cold cast bronze reproduction of Edgar Degas’s iconic sculpture ‘Degas Little Cold Cast Ballet Dancer Statue’. The original 1881 sculpture by Edgar Degas is of a young student at the Paris Opera Ballet dance school, a Belgian named Marie van Goethem. The sculpture is two-thirds life-size and was originally sculpted in wax, an unusual choice of medium for the time. It is dressed in a real bodice, tutu, and ballet slippers and has a wig of real hair. All but a hair ribbon and the tutu are covered in wax. The 28 bronze repetitions that appear in museums and galleries around the world today were cast after Degas’ death. The tutus worn by the bronzes vary from museum to museum. The exact relationship between Marie van Goethem and Edgar Degas is a matter of debate. It was common in 1880 for the “Petits Rats” of the Paris Opera to seek protectors from among the wealthy visitors at the back door of the opera. A dancer trains to her highest standard with a ballet bar in the ‘Discipline of Training’ sculpture by Beauchamp Bronze. “Cold Cast Bronze” is a technique used for making sculptures, it involves blending bronze powders with a specially formulated resin to produce a material that is applied to the interior of a silicone mold. The mold is then filled with a blend of resin and bronze metal powder, the sculpture is then left to set. The finished item has the same appealing look of a bronze sculpture, a cool feel, and is weighted. All in all, a cold-cast bronze sculpture is a piece of art produced for a fraction of the cost of solid bronze but still carrying the same incredible detail and design.
