Dancer Bowing (The Curtain Call)

Mediums: pigmented beeswax, metal fittings, cork on a wooden base.
Location: The National Gallery of Art in Washington (the USA).

Using the spectral method, experts managed to find out that the author used improvised and simple materials to create stability and volume. The frame could be a metal wire, and the volume itself was often filled with light corks from bottles, wooden sticks and cuttings. Then the master coated the base with wax, plasticine, clay, applying them layer by layer and smoothing by hand.