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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

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ID 818811
Lot 133 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Deux femmes causant

stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)

pastel on paper

22 5/8 x 32 3/8 in. (57.5 x 82.3 cm.)

Drawn circa 1882-1885





Provenance

Estate of the artist; First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 133.

Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale).

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1920).

Pierre Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above, 1946); sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 7 December 1954, lot 6.

M. Messiqua (acquired at the above sale).

Private collection, Switzerland.

Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1971).

Helen Turner, New York (acquired from the above, 1988).

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 1992, lot 15.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.



Literature

G. Bazin, "Degas et l'objectif," L'Amour de l'Art, no. VII, July 1931, p. 309, no. 114 (illustrated).

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 404, no. 711 (illustrated, p. 405).



Exhibited

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Pictures, Pastels and Drawings by Degas, April-May 1936, p. 8, no. 26 (titled La Conversation).

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art and Fukuoka Red Brick Culture Museum, Degas, September 1976-January 1977, no. 35 (illustrated in color).

Saint Louis Art Museum and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, February-September 2017, p. 226, no. 77 (illustrated in color).
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Applied technique:Pastel, Painted
Medium:Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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