ID 819796
Lot 40 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
Attente d'un client
signed 'Degas' (lower right)
pastel and charcoal over monotype on paper laid down on paper
Image size: 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 in. (16.4 x 12.1 cm.)
Sheet size: 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (19 x 14.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1879
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Dikran Khan Kélékian, New York and Paris.
Mrs. Maurice Newton, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 1 November 1978, lot 14.
Shigeki Kameyama, Tokyo.
John R. Gaines, Lexington, Kentucky; sale, Christie's, New York, 14 May 1986, lot 12.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Literature
P. Louÿs, Mimes des courtisanes de Lucien, Paris, 1935, p. 10 (illustrated in color).
E.P. Janis, Degas Monotypes, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1968, no. 84 (illustrated).
J. Adhémar and F. Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs, and Monotypes, London, 1973, p. 281.
P. Brame and T. Reff, Degas et son oeuvre: A Supplement, New York, 1984, p. 86, no. 80 (illustrated, p. 87).
J. Lahr, "Vile Bodies: Terence Rattigan and Adam Rapp on the Filthy Rich" in The New Yorker, 17 October 2011, p. 95 (illustrated in color; dated 1876-1877).
R. Smith, "The Modern Degas You Haven't Seen" in The New York Times, 24 March 2016, p. 17 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Degas and the Nude, October 2011-July 2012, pp. 74 and 224 (illustrated in color, p. 75, fig. 78; dated 1876-1877).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edgar Degas: A Strange Beauty, March-July 2016, p. 231, no. 89 (illustrated in color, p. 145; dated circa 1877-1879).
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Charcoal |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Nude art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Charcoal |
| Medium: | Wood |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Nude art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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