ID 842733
Lot 53 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 000 – 7 000 000
Danseuse rajustant son chausson
signed 'Degas' (lower right)
pastel on paper
18 3/4 x 24 3/4 in. (47.6 x 62.6 cm.)
Drawn circa 1887
Provenance
Albert Besnard, Paris.
Myron C. Barlow, Etaples and Detroit.
Albert and Ernestine Kahn, Detroit (possibly acquired from the above, 1929).
Lydia Winston Malbin, New York and Detroit (gift from the above, 1949); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1990, lot 117.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, United States (acquired from the above, 1992).
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 2001).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 6 February 2002.
Literature
P. Brame and T. Reff, Degas et son œuvre: A Supplement, New York, 1984, p. 136, no. 125 (illustrated, p. 137).
Exhibited
Bloomfield Hills, Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Light and the Painter, September 1952, p. 28, no. 22 (illustrated on the frontispiece; titled Danseuse).
Detroit Institute of Arts, French Drawings and Water Colors from Michigan Collections, January-February 1962, pp. 11 and 14, no. 51 (illustrated, p. 14).
Detroit Institute of Arts, Selections from the Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection, July 1972-April 1973.
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Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Pastel on paper |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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Applied technique: | Pastel on paper |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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