Discover Degas & Miss La La - Chiara Di Stefano, Anne Robbins

The extraordinary story behind Degas’s groundbreaking painting of the African-American circus performer Miss La La.  Edgar Degas’s Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) is one of only two paintings by the artist representing people of colour. Miss La La, born Anna Albertine Olga Brown to a white Prussian mother and African-American father, was a renowned performer of extraordinary daring in fin-de-siècle Paris.  Exploring the fascinating story behind Degas’s painting, this is the first... Zobrazit více