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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 386
30.06.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 386 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Cheval en marche

stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 10/L AA HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)

bronze with brown patina

length: 10 1/2 in. (26.4 cm.)

Original wax model executed in 1865-1881; this bronze version cast at a later date 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

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 July 2001, lot 86.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. X, p. 20 (another cast illustrated p. 43).

P. Borel, Les sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949 (another cast illustrated; titled 'Cheval au pas relevé').

J. Rewald & L. von Matt, Degas, Sculpture, Zurich, 1956, no. X, p. 142 (another cast illustrated pl. 9 & 20-22).

F. Russoli & F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S 52, p. 144 (another cast illustrated p. 143).

C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pp. 59 & 97 (original wax model illustrated fig. 7).

J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. X, p. 62 (original wax model illustrated p. 62; another cast illustrated p. 63).

A. Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 52, p. 177 (original wax model illustrated).

S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné,' in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 10, pp. 15-16 (another cast illustrated).

J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 10, p. 141 (original wax model illustrated, p. 141; another cast illustrated p. 140).

S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour & S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Nineteenth-century Art, Pasadena, 2009, no. 34, pp. 232, 234 & 509-510 (original wax model illustrated pp. 232 & 234, and another cast illustrated pp. 232 & 233).



Exhibited

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Edgar Degas, The Late Work, September 2012 - January 2013, p. 261 (illustrated p. 207).



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This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Artist:Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures
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