ID 1306204
Lot 214 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Cheval marchant au pas relevé
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 11/D A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with reddish brown patina
height: 8 7/8 in. (23 cm.)
length: 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.)
Original wax model probably executed before 1881; this bronze version cast between 1919 and 1921 in an edition of twenty-two numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively
Provenance
Walter Halvorsen, Oslo.
Justin K. Thannhauser, Germany, by August 1929.
Private collection, Switzerland.
Private collection, Italy, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Christie's, London, 28 June 2000, lot 2.
Browse & Darby, London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, by 2002.
Browse & Darby, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
P. Gsell, “Edgar Degas, statuaire” in La renaissance de l’art français et des industries de luxe, Paris, December 1918, p. 378 (original wax model illustrated).
P.-A. Lemoisne, “Les Statuettes de Degas” in Art et décoration, Paris, December 1919, vol. XXXVI, pp. 111-113 (original wax model illustrated p. 111; titled 'Etude de cheval').
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. IV, p. 19 (original wax model illustrated p. 38 & another cast illustrated p. 39).
P. Borel, Les sculptures inédités de Degas, Geneva, 1949 (original wax model illustrated; titled 'Cheval du pur sang marchant au pas').
J. Rewald & L. von Matt, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich, 1956, no. IV, p. 141 (other casts illustrated pls. 7, 21 & 22).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S. 39, p. 142 (another cast illustrated p. 143).
J. Cooper, Nineteenth-Century Romantic Bronzes, French, English and American Bronzes 1830-1915, Boston, 1975, p. 154 (another cast illustrated).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pp. x, 20 & 59 (original wax model illustrated fig. 15).
A. Pingeot, A. Le Normand-Romain and L. de Margerie, Musée d’Orsay, Catalogue sommaire illustré de sculptures, Paris, 1986, no. RF2103, p. 132 (another cast illustrated p. 133).
A. Roquebert, Degas, Paris, 1988, no. 52, p. 58 (another cast illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, New Edition, San Francisco, 1990, no. IV, p. 50 (another cast illustrated p. 50 & original wax model illustrated p. 51).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 39, p. 172 (another cast and original wax model illustrated; another cast illustrated again pp. 82 & 83).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 11, p. 16 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 11, p. 143 (original wax model illustrated p. 143 & another cast illustrated p. 142).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour & S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 33, no. 33, pp. 229-231 & 510-511 (another cast illustrated pp. 230-231 & original wax model illustrated p. 231).
Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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