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MARIE-MONIQUE STECKEL President, French Institute Alliance Francaise Grc7ory Hedberg GREGORY HEDBERG DEGAS' Senior Consultant, Hirschl & Adler Galleries LITTLE DANCER, AGED request the pleasure of your company FOURTEEN for the launch of an important new book ;he onrCer 'trio/ that helped tpa•. the birth Mudent ref DEGAS LITTLE DANCER, • AGED FOURTEEN: The earlier version that helped spark the birth of modern art by Gregory Hedberg, Ph.D. from Arnoldsche Art Publishers Monday, September 12th 5:30 lecture by Dr. Hedberg in Florence Gould Hall 6:30 until 8:oo cocktail reception in the Skyroom The French Institute Alliance Francaise 22 East 6oth Street New York City R.s.v.p. [email protected] As part of the presentation of Dr. Hedberg's Thursday, September 15'h at 6:3o research, an exhibition of the Degas Little Dancer in the FIAF Skyroom plaster has been arranged at the French Institute ERIC FISCHL, internationally known figurative artist Alliance Francaise (FIAF) opening on Monday, September 12M, and continuing through "From Degas To Me With Some Other Artists Saturday, September 17's, as well as a series In Between" of lectures: The recent discovery of a plaster by Edgar Degas, Wednesday, September 14th at 6:30 Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, turns our understand- in the FIAF Skyroom ing of the most famous work by this artist on its head. As source material and technical analyses ARTHUR BEALE, chair emeritus of conservation verify, it was cast from the famous wax sculpture we and collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston know today prior to its considerable reworking. As "How Understanding Sculptural Techniques Can a consequence, the Little Dancer is being seen for Lead To Important Art Historical Discoveries" the first time in its revolutionary original conception, which caused a great sensation with its first presen- tation at the sixth Impressionist exhibition of 1881. EFTA_R1_00012593 EFTA01734425