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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

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Lot 418 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Portrait d'artiste (Léon Bonnat)

oil on board

30 1⁄2 x 19 7⁄8 in. (77.5 x 50.5 cm.)

Painted circa 1863





Provenance

The artist's estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15-16 November 1918, lot 12.

Georges Viau, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 February 1943, lot 114.

Dubourg collection, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Private collection, by whom acquired circa the 1960s, and thence by descent.



Literature

G. Waldemar, 'La Collection Viau. I - La peinture moderne', in L'Amour de l'art, no. 1, January 1925, pp. 362 & 368 (illustrated p. 368).

G. Waldemar, 'Masks or Faces', in Apollo: A Journal of the Arts, vol. XIII, no. 77, May 1931, p. 274 (illustrated; titled 'Léon Bonnat').

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1946, no. 150, p. 76 (illustrated p. 77; dated 'circa 1866-1870').

F. Russoli & F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 236, p. 96 (illustrated p. 97, dated '1865-1870').

J. Lassaigne & F. Minervino, Toute l'œuvre peinte de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. 236, p. 96 (illustrated p. 97; dated '1865-1870').

Exh. cat., Villa Medici, Degas e l'Italia, Rome, 1984, p. 32 (illustrated fig. 16).

H. Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, p. 119.

C. Ives, S.A. Stein & J.A. Steiner (eds), The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue, New York, 1997, p. 124.



Exhibited

Paris, Museé de l'Orangerie, Degas, Portraitiste, Sculpteur, 1931, no. 29, p. 39 (titled 'Portrait d'homme' and dated 'circa 1864').

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Cent ans de peinture française, 1932, no. 57.

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Degas, February - May 1988, no. 43, pp. 102-103 (illustrated p. 103). This exhibition later travelled to: Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, June - August 1988; and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 1988 - January 1989.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:France
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