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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

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ID 1209983
Lot 782 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Degas, E.
Tête, étude pour le portrait de Mathilde Salle
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'DEGAS A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE 7/J' (Lugt 658; on the back)
bronze with black and green patina
Height: 5 ½ in. (14 cm.)
Conceived in 1892; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively




Provenance

E. Bachmann, New York.
Harold Diamond, New York (until 1958).
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (bequest from the above, 1966); sale, Christie's, New York, 3 November 1993, lot 101.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 23, no. XXXI (another cast illustrated, p. 83).
F. Russoli, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 144, no. S69 (another cast illustrated, p. 145).
C.W. Millard, The Sculptures of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. XVIII, no. 115 (another cast illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 100, no. XXXI (another cast illustrated and original clay model illustrated, p. 101).
S. Campbell, "Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, August 1995, p. 14, no. 7 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2003, p. 135, no. 7 (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated in color, p. 134).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D. Barbour and S. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, p. 485, no. 101 (details illustrated; original clay model illustrated, p. 486 and another cast illustrated, p. 487).



Exhibited

New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, The Many-Sided Artist, March 1961, no. 14.
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, October 1962-January 1963, p. 212, no. 106.
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