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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 224
08.03.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 224 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Danseuse, grande arabesque, deuxième temps

stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 15/E CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)

bronze with brown patina

height: 16 5⁄8 in. (42.3 cm.)

The original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; twenty-three bronze examples cast between 1919 and 1937 or later, numbered from A to T, two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and Hébrard (marked HER and HER.D respectively) and one known artist's proof





Provenance

Richard Nathanson, London.

Acquired from the above by the present owner through Robert Holden Ltd., London, in 1989.



Literature

J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XXXVI, p. 23 (another cast illustrated pp. 88-89).

L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, no. 157, p. 389 (another cast illustrated; titled 'Danseuse nue en arabesque').

J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich, 1957, no. XXXVI, p. 148 (another cast illustrated pls. 39, 40 & 43).

J. Lassaigne & F. Minervino, Tout l'œuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S 6, p. 140 (another cast illustrated).

C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 23 (another cast illustrated pl. 90).

J. & M. Guillaud, Degas, Form and Space, Paris, 1984, no. 62, p. 196 (another cast illustrated fig. 187, p. 195).

J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXXVI, pp. 110-111 (another version and another cast illustrated).

A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 6, p. 155 (another cast illustrated pls. 72 & 73).

S. Campbell, 'A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 15, p. 18 (another cast illustrated).

J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 15, p. 151 (another cast illustrated pp. 150-151).

S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D. Barbour & S. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Nineteenth Century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 67, pp. 354-357 (another cast illustrated pp. 355, 356, 357).



Exhibited

Stanford, University, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, on long term loan, 1989-2023.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Impressionism, Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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