ID 818794
Lot 181 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
Femme mettant son corset
signed 'Degas' (upper right)
pastel on paper laid down on paper
19 1/4 x 19 1/8 in. (48.9 x 48.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1883
Provenance
Estate of the artist; Second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, lot 130.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale through Ambroise Vollard).
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, January 1920).
H.O. Hughes (acquired from the above, April 1920).
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, July 1920).
Chester Johnson Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above, April 1929).
Helen Hayes, New York (by 1958).
M. Pinto, Paris.
Private collection, France.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, January 1963).
Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, March 1967).
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1989, lot 10.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1947, vol. III, p. 420, no. 742 (illustrated, p. 421).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 126, no. 882 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Renoir, Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures, November-December 1958, no. 37.
Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Die welt des Impressionismus, June-September 1963, p. 21, no. 39a (titled Frau beim Anziehen).
Denver Art Museum, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, February-May 2018.
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Pastel on paper |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Nude art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Pastel on paper |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Nude art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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