Court Orders Closure Of Foundry That Has Been Casting Degas Bronzes (Which Degas Would Have Hated)

“The Valsuani foundry, whose bronze sculptures by Edgar Degas have roiled the art market for more than a decade, is closing, by order of a French judge … Degas sculpted in wax and clay but only as an intellectual exercise. He hated the idea of casting his sculptures in bronze.”