Degas and Constable and McTaggart: this week’s best UK exhibitions

A plaster cast of the original Little Dancer comes to London, while two sombre masterpieces of English and Scottish art are shown together

Statues of the Little Dancer – such as the one in the Tate Modern – were made after the death of the great French artist, based on a wax sculpture he worked and reworked over many years. Now, what appears to be a plaster cast of the original – as first exhibited at the impressionist exhibition in Paris, 1881 – has resurfaced. This dancer looks more childlike and less elegant than the image everyone knows and it’s all the more moving for that.
Stair Sainty Gallery, W1, 27 April to 26 May

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