Location
WC2N 5DN
Dates
This exhibition runs from Thu, 6th Jun 2024 to Sun, 1st Sep 2024.
This exhibition has not opened yet. Will open on Thu, 6th Jun 2024
Cost: Free of Charge
Description
Degas’s 'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando' takes centre stage in this exhibition that sheds light on this work with newly discovered information about the painting and its sitter.
This radical Impressionist masterwork records an extraordinary moment and features a remarkable figure – the circus artist Miss La La, or Anna Albertine Olga Brown (1858‒1945).
In 1879 Degas made the talented aerialist the subject of one of his most original and arresting paintings, capturing her in one of her most striking and perilous acts. Suspended from a rope held between her teeth by a leather mouthpiece, Miss La La is hoisted up towards the ceiling of the Cirque Fernando
Featuring new material, from rare, previously untraced drawings of her by Degas, to entirely unpublished photographic portraits of Miss La La, the exhibition turns the spotlight on her, and on the painting, telling their story for the first time at the Gallery.
Focusing on one of Degas’s masterpieces, and his only painting depicting a non-white sitter whose identity is known, the exhibition will also look at how Degas himself represented and related to people of colour. Although he was himself the son of a Creole mother (of European descent) and was fascinated by the ethnic diversity he saw during a trip to New Orleans in 1872‒73, Degas is believed to have only painted two works representing people of colour. Drawing on recent academic research, a section of the show will investigate his complex relationship to the representation of race.
As the painting, acquired for the nation in 1925 thanks to the Courtauld Fund, is about to celebrate 100 years in the collection of the National Gallery, the exhibition also looks at how it influenced and inspired British art in the 1920s. Works by artists such as Thérèse Lessore and Duncan Grant form the final section of the exhibition, looking at how Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando inspired British artists after the First World War and beyond.
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This exhibition has not opened yet. Will open on Thu, 6th Jun 2024
This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:
June 2024
- Thu, 6th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 7th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 8th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 9th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 10th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 11th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 12th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 13th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 14th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 15th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 16th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 17th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 18th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 19th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 20th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 21st Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sat, 22nd Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 23rd Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 24th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 25th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 26th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 27th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 28th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 29th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 30th Jun 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm)
July 2024
- Mon, 1st Jul 2024
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(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 6th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 7th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 8th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 9th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 10th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 11th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 12th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 13th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 14th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 15th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 16th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 17th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 18th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 19th Jul 2024
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(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 28th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 29th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 30th Jul 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 31st Jul 2024
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August 2024
- Thu, 1st Aug 2024
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(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 6th Aug 2024
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(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 9th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 10th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Sun, 11th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Mon, 12th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 13th Aug 2024
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(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Tue, 27th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Wed, 28th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Thu, 29th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm) - Fri, 30th Aug 2024
(10:00am - 9:00pm) - Sat, 31st Aug 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm)
September 2024
- Sun, 1st Sep 2024
(10:00am - 6:00pm)
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