EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 185
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Lot 185 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Buste de femme au chapeau à plumes

signed 'Degas' (lower right)

oil on canvas

14 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (36.8 x 31.8 cm.)

Painted circa 1887





Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, January 1890).

Ludovic Halévy, Paris (acquired from the above, November 1894).

Elie Halévy, Sucy-en-Brie (by descent from the above).

Florence Halévy, Sucy-en-Brie (by descent from the above, 1937).

Henriette Guy-Loë, Sucy-en-Brie (by descent from the above).

Galerie Brame et Lorenceau, Paris (on consignment from the above, 1968).

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above, May 1981.



Literature

M. Hayot, "Au Georges V," L'Oeil, no. 287, June 1979, p. 55, no. 5 (illustrated; titled Portrait de femme).

P. Brame and T. Reff, Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement, New York, 1984, p. 140, no. 128 (illustrated, p. 141).



Exhibited

Paris, Hôtel George V, La sixième exposition des antiquaires à Paris et de la haute joaillerie de France, June 1979.

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. 169, no. 41 (illustrated in color; dated circa 1887-1890 and titled Head of a Woman).

Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, The Impressionists and Photography, October 2019-January 2020, p. 203, no. 122 (illustrated in color).
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