ID 818850
Lot 136 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Femmes assises sur l'herbe
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
pastel on paper
29 7/8 x 33 7/8 in. (76 x 86 cm.)
Drawn circa 1882
Provenance
Estate of the artist; Second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, lot 112.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Anonymous (acquired from the above, 1936); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1987, lot 47.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 394, no. 696 (illustrated, p. 395).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 114, no. 598 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Saint Louis Art Museum and San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, February-September 2017, pp. 226-227, no. 78 (illustrated in color, p. 227).
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Pastel, Pastel on paper |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Pastel, Pastel on paper |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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