EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 390
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Lot 390 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Femme nue s'essuyant

stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower right)

pastel and charcoal on coloured squared paper laid down on canvas

19 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (49.5 x 32 cm.)

Executed in 1895





Provenance

The artist's estate; third sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 April 1919, lot 74.

M. Aubert, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Dr Georges Viau, Paris.

Arnold S. Askin, New York.

Eugene V. Thaw, New York.

Private collection, New York, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 4 November 2010, lot 130.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

P.-A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Peintures et pastels, 1883-1908, Paris, 1947, no. 1180, p. 684 (illustrated p. 685; with incorrect medium).



Exhibited

(Possibly) Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Five Years: The Friends of the Corcoran, The Contemporary Spirit, October 1966, no. 7.



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