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Item Number: 123569
Title: DEGAS, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando
Author: Wolk-Simon, Linda
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780875981635
Description: New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2013. 27cm., pbk., 97pp. illus. Summary: For several successive evenings in January 1875, Edgar Degas, considered by his contemporaries to be the quintessential painter of “modern life,” attended performances by the sensational mixed-race aerialist known as Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando in Paris. Hoisted only by a rope clenched between her teeth, Miss La La was suspended at a great height in the upper reaches of the circus interior. Degas obsessively recorded this stupendous feat in a series of drawings and pastels culminating in Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, his only circus-themed painting, now in the National Gallery, London. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando, this catalogue presents the artist’s entire body of work relating to this celebrated composition, images by other artists exploring similar subjects, and prints, photographs, and ephemera chronicling Miss La La and her acclaimed appearances in London and Paris. The lead essay, by Linda Wolk-Simon, organizer of the exhibition, provides new and revealing insights about the enigmatic performer, her troupe, and the now-destroyed Cirque Fernando. A second essay, by Nancy Ireson, charts the extraordinary popularity of the circus as a form of urban entertainment in late-nineteenth-century Paris and the many artists who found inspiration in its colorful spectacle.
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