ID 908447
Lot 503 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
Femme tenant un chapeau
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
pastel and charcoal on paper
17 3/4 x 23 1/4 in. (45.2 x 59 cm.)
Executed circa 1885
Provenance
The artist’s estate, Paris; second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 December 1918, lot 169.
M. Aubert, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Private collection, France.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in October 2009.
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1947, no. 834, p. 482 (illustrated p. 483).
Exh. cat., Degas, New York, 1988, fig. 211, p. 400 (illustrated; titled 'At the Milliner's').
R. Gordon & A. Forge, Degas, London, 1988, p. 275 (illustrated p. 134).
Exh. cat., Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, San Francisco, 2017, fig. 63, p. 105 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Degas, May - June 1975, no. 30, p. 60 (illustrated p. 61).
Tubingen, Kunsthalle, Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Oelskizzen, Zeichnungen, January - March 1984, no. 160, p. 383 (illustrated p. 44); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, April - May 1984.
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Pastel |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Pastel |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
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