Anne Robbins is a Curator of Paintings at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Chiara Di Stefano is Associate Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London. Laurie Fierstein is an independent researcher, currently writing a book about Anna Albertine Olga Brown Woodson and Theophilia Szterker. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. Denise Murrell is the Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large, Office of the Director, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Sterre Overmars is Weinrebe Curatorial Fellow of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London. Isolde Pludermacher is Chief Curator of Paintings at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Christopher Riopelle is the Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings at the National Gallery, London.
Prelims (half title/title/colophon, contents)
Director’s foreword
Preface: Miss La La, Black model (Denise Murrell & Isolde Pludermacher)
Essays
1. Degas and Miss La La: genesis of the picture and overview of the
painting’s history (Anne Robbins)
2. Imagery of the acrobat in fin-de-siècle Paris (Chiara Di Stefano)
3. Degas, New Orleans and the question of ‘race’ (Darcy Grimaldo
Grigsby)
Catalogue section
With 6 short section introductions, followed by images of the 45 exhibited
works.
1. Miss La La: Background and success (Laurie Fierstein)
2. Cirque Fernando in Paris: circus and avant-garde (Chiara Di Stefano)
3. Watching, drawing, posing Miss La La: elaboration of the painting (Anne
Robbins)
4. Miss La La, 1879: from performance to exhibition (Anne Robbins)
5. Degas and ‘the Black world’ (Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby)
6. The painting’s afterlife: exhibitions, travels and influence
(Christopher Riopelle)
Endmatter
Chronology (Anne Robbins, Laurie Fierstein and Chiara Di Stefano)
Notes
Bibliography
List of lenders, Acknowledgements
