EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 56
28.02.2023 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 2 500 000
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ID 908034
Lot 56 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
£ 2 500 000 – 4 500 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Femme en peignoir jaune se coiffant

stamped with signature ‘Degas’ (Lugt 658; lower left)

pastel on joined paper laid down on board

43 1/4 x 39 1/2 in. (109.8 x 100.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1894





Provenance

The artist's estate; First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 175.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.

Jacques Seligmann, New York & Paris; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 27 January 1921, lot 63.

Lathrop and Hélène Brown, New York & La Jolla, by whom acquired at the above sale; her estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 May 1979, lot 224.

Private collection, United States, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Literature

‘Museum Notes’, in The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 3, Brooklyn, July 1921, p. 118 (titled ‘The Yellow Kimono’).

P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1160, p. 675 (illustrated).

F. Russoli & F. Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 1167, p. 138 (illustrated).



Exhibited

The Brooklyn Museum, on loan, 1921.



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