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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 165
13.05.2025 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1423021
Lot 165 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Ludovic Halévy trouve Madame Cardinal dans les loges
stamped 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower right)
pastel over monotype on Japan paper
Plate size: 8 3/8 x 6 3/8 in. (21.2 x 16.2 cm.)
Sheet size: 13 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (33.2 x 23.1 cm.)
Executed in 1880-1883




Provenance

Estate of the artist; sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17 March 1928, lot 1.
David David-Weill, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and transferred to the Jeu de Paume under Nazi occupation after 1940 (no. D.W. 357).
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section, at the 'Lager Peter' salt mine, Altaussee, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, Germany, 28 June 1945 (no. 1358/18).
Repatriated to France, 18 April 1946, and restituted to David David-Weill, Paris, 10 May 1946.
Private collection (then by descent); sale, Ader, Picard and Ader, 25 May 1971, lot 59.
Mrs. Erwing, Hartford (acquired at the above sale, then by descent).
Private collection (acquired from the above, September 2013); sale, Christie's, Paris, 4 April 2023, lot 29.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

A. Blaizot, ed., La Famille Cardinal, Paris, 1939, p. 45 (illustrated in color).
E.P. Janis, Degas Monotypes: Essay, Catalogue and Checklist, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1968, no. 215 (illustrated).
J. Adhémar and F. Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes, London, 1974, p. 273, no. 59
Degas, exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1988, p. 282.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Watercolors and drawings
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