‘‘Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone… like a crumbling goddess in a park.’’

-Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way, In Search of Lost Times, Volume 3, 1920

“Did she know as she posed in his studio that, thanks to him, she would die less completely than the other girls?”

-Camille Lauren, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, 2018

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references

Daniel Arsham, ‘Pink Selenite Eroded Basketball Rack’, 2019

Edgar Degas, ‘Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,’ 1880-1, Tate, London

Edgar Degas, ‘Three Studies of a Dancer,’ 1878, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York

Giacomo Balla, ‘Ecarte. Study of Movement,’ 1920, Private Collection

Helen Maybanks, ‘Marianela Nuñez as Giselle, Peter Wright's Giselle,’ 2017, The Royal Ballet, London

Loie Fuller, ‘Danse Serpentine (II), Film Lumiere no.765,’ 1897-99, Paris

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, ‘To Douse The Devil For A Ducat’, 2015, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Man Ray, ‘Silhouette’, 1916, Guggenheim Museum, New York

Mark Rothko, ‘No. 9 Blue Pink’, 1956, New York

Pablo Picasso, ‘Ballet Dancer’, 1954, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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