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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 713
13.05.2023 19:30UTC -05:00
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ID 950038
Lot 713 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

La Masseuse

stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 55/E A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)

bronze with dark brown patina

Height: 16 3/4 in. (41.6 cm.)

Width: 17 in. (43.2 cm.)

Original wax model conceived circa 1895; this bronze version cast in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER, respectively





Provenance

Acquired by the late owners, by 1965.



Literature

J. Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 28, no. LXXIII (original wax model and another cast illustrated, p. 143).

J. Rewald and L. Von Matt, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, pp. 89 and 157, no. LXXIII (another cast illustrated, p. 89).

C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. XX, no. 139 (original wax model illustrated).

R. Thomson, Degas: The Nudes, London, 1988, pp. 210 and 237 (original wax model illustrated, fig. 211).

J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXXIII (original wax model illustrated, p. 184; another cast illustrated, p. 185).

A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, pp. 185-186, no. 68 (original wax model illustrated, p. 185).

S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, August 1995, pp. 37-38, no. 55 (original wax model illustrated, p. 37).

J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 228-229, no. 55 (another cast illustrated; original wax model illustrated).

S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, pp. 445-449 and 542-543, no. 90 (original wax model illustrated in color, p. 445; another cast illustrated, pp. 447 and 449).
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