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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 29
11.05.2023 07:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 2 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949536
Lot 29 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Danseuse à la barre

signed ‘Degas’ (upper left)

gouache, pastel and pencil on paper laid down on artist's mount

Sheet size: 7 x 8 7/8 in. (17.8 x 22.6 cm.)

Mount size: 11 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (28.4 x 32.1 cm.)

Executed in 1877





Provenance

John Howard Whittemore, Connecticut.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (on consignment from the above, November 1935).

Ernest F. Kanzler, Detroit (acquired from the above, January 1936).

Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 21 April 1936).

Grace Rainey Rogers, New York (acquired from the above, 12 May 1936).

Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York (by October 1936).

Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, 1 November 1936, then by descent to the late owner).



Literature

G. Rivière, "L'exposition des impressionnistes" in L'Impressionniste, no. 2, 14 April 1877, p. 5.

L. Hautecœur, "La conception de la nature chez les peintres modernes" in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 78, no. 16, July-August 1936, p. 181 (illustrated, fig. 3).

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1947, vol. III, p. 232, no. 421 (illustrated, p. 233).

J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l’œuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 110, no. 498 (illustrated; dated 1876-1877).



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, 6 rue le Peletier, 3e Exposition de Peinture, April 1877.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Applied technique:Pastel on paper
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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