EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 51
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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$ 3 000 000
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ID 1336239
Lot 51 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Danseuses (Les coulisses de l'Opéra)
stamped with signature ‘Degas’ (Lugt 658; lower left)
oil on canvas
19 5/8 x 24 in. (49.8 x 61.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1886




Provenance

Estate of the artist; Second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, lot 29.
Elisabeth and Adolphe Friedmann, Paris (probably acquired at the above sale through Galerie Nunès & Fiquet, then by descent); sale, Christie's, Paris, 31 March 2022, lot 215.
Private collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

G. Rivière, Mr. Degas: Bourgeois de Paris, Paris, 1935 (illustrated, pl. 95; titled Dans les coulisses).
P.-A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 512, no. 880 (illustrated, p. 513).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 124, no. 825 (illustrated, p. 123; titled Ballerine e visitatore).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Exposition de cent ans de théâtre, music-hall et cirque: Dix-neuvième siècle, May-July 1936, p. 22, no. 22.
(probably) Paris, Galerie André Weil, Degas: Peintre du mouvement, June 1939.
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Tsu, Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Osaka, The Daimaru Museum; The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art and Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Edgar Degas, October 1988-May 1989, pp. 132-133, no. 67 (illustrated in color, p. 133; dated circa 1890-1891 and titled Dancers in the Wings).
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, L'œuvre ultime: De Cezanne à Dubuffet, July-October 1989, p. 48, no. 14 (illustrated in color, p. 49; dated circa 1890).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Degas, June-November 1993, p. 90, no. 49 (illustrated in color; dated circa 1890).
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