EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 2
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Lot 2 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Deux danseuses sur la scène

signed 'Degas' (upper right)

oil on paper laid down on panel

6 5/8 x 8 5/8 in. (17 x 21.7 cm.)

Painted circa 1880





Provenance

Olivier Sainsère, Paris (by 1918).

Mme Olivier Sainsère, Paris (by descent from the above, by 1937).

André Weil, Paris.

Florence J. Gould, Paris and Cannes (by 1976); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 April 1985, lot 31.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.



Literature

P. Lafond, Degas, Paris, 1918, vol. I, p. 156 (illustrated in color).

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 344, no. 608 (illustrated, p. 345; with incorrect medium).

J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 120, no. 756 (illustrated, p. 121; with incorrect medium).



Exhibited

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Degas, March-April 1937, p. 40, no. 32.

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Edgar Degas, June-October 1960, no. 29 (with incorrect medium).

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Musée de la ville de Kyoto and Centre Culturel de Fukuoka, Degas, September 1976-January 1977, no. 18 (illustrated in color).

Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Private Degas, January-May 1987, pp. 57 and 140, no. 46 (illustrated in color, p. 59, fig. 79; dated circa 1874).

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Degas Sculptures, October 2003-January 2004.
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