EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 255
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ID 1508069
Lot 255 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Danseuse tenant son pied droit dans la main droite
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas A.A. Hebrard Cire Perdue' (on the top of the base) and numbered '68/I' (on the side of the base)
bronze with reddish brown patina
Height: 21 7/8 in. (52.5 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition of 22, with 20 casts lettered A-T, plus one cast marked 'HER.D’ for the Degas heirs and one cast marked ‘HER’ for the founder Hébrard




Provenance

Nelly Hébrard, Paris.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1955).
J.B. Rosenberg, New York (acquired from the above, November 1955).
Weintraub Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, March 1979.



Literature

J. Rewald, ed., Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 27, no. LXII (another cast illustrated, p. 128).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 141, no. S 29 (another cast illustrated, p. 142).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 162-163, no. LXII (original wax model illustrated, p. 162; another cast illustrated, p. 163).
A. Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 167, no. 30 (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas Bronzes" in Apollo, August 1995, p. 44, no. 68 (another cast illustrated, fig. 66).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, p. 255, no. 68 (original wax model and other casts illustrated pp. 254-255).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D. Barbour and S. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009 pp. 418-420 and 552, no. 83 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated, pp. 418-420).
S. Glover Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas: Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, pp. 246-248, no. 41 (wax model and other casts illustrated pp. 246-247).
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