EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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ID 1548128
Lot 914 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
30000GBP £ 30 000 – 50 000
Danseuse, la jambe droite levée
stamped with the signature Degas (Lugt 658; lower left)
charcoal on buff paper laid down on board
31 x 24,5 cm. (12 ¼ x 9 5/8 in.)
Provenance
The artist's estate; 3rd sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7 April 1919, lot 84a.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris; acquired at the above sale.
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York; acquired from the above in January 1920.
A. Gallatin, New York; acquired from the above on 13 March 1920.
Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1988, lot 115.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, no. 81, p. 365 (ill.; titled 'Danseuse se dégourdissant à la barre' and dated 'circa 1880-1882').
Exhibited
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Pastels and Drawings by Degas, March 1920, no. 23.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Weibsbilder, September 2000 - March 2001 (no cat.).
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Degas and the Dance, October 2002 - January 2003, no. 159, pp. 145 (ill.), 146 & 291 (titled 'Dancer Stretching in Attitude', with incorrect dimensions and dated 'circa 1880'); then Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, February - May 2003.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Von Delacroix bis Cezanne - Französische Zeichnungen des 19 Jahrhunderts, November 2004 - February 2005 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Degas: Intimität und Pose, February - May 2009, no. 18, pp. 64 (ill.), 65 & 132 (ill.; with incorrect medium, dimensions and dated 'circa 1880').
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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