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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 422
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 422 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Cheval s'enlevant sur l'obstacle
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 48/H A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with reddish and dark brown patina
Height: 12 in. (31 cm.)
Length: 14 ¼ in. (36 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; 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

Rune Swanstrom, Gothenburg (1960).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, November 1961).
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano (acquired from the above, February 1962).
Baroness Fiona Thyssen-Bornemisza, St-Moritz (1967); sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 1997, lot 114.
Peter Findley Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, March 2000.



Literature

J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 43 (another cast illustrated, pl. IX).
J. Rewald, Edgar Degas, Original Wax Sculptures, New York, 1955, no. 9 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, p. 146, no. IX (another cast illustrated, pls. 10 and 11; fig 4. and p. 147).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'Opera Completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S43 (another cast illustrated).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. xiv (original wax model illustrated, pl. 66).
A. Pingeot and F. Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1990, pp. 84-85, no. 43 (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated again, p. 173).
J. Rewald, Degas' Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 33, no. IX (another cast illustrated in color; another cast illustrated again, p. 60 and original wax model illustrated p. 60).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, August 1995, p. 34, no. 48 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 214 and 215, no. 48 (original wax model illustrated, p. 215; another cast illustrated in color, p. 214).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, pp. 267-270 and 518-519, no. 48 (original wax model illustrated, p. 268; another cast illustrated in color, p. 269).
S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 96-99 and , no. 11 (original wax model illustrated in color, p. 97).



Exhibited

New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Edgar Degas, October-December 1999.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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