Two Dancers in Studio
About this artwork
Part of John Kelly's Dancer series, portraying classical ballet dancers he knows in Paris. This was painted in his studio, and is, more than his other pieces, an homage to Degas. The movement between the dancers is illustrated but there is a stillness in the empty studio, suggesting a melancholy. Underlined by the fact that while one of the figures is conscious of the other, her partner is in her own world.