EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 19
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£ 1 200 000
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ID 1163379
Lot 19 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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£ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Danseuse

signed ‘Degas’ (lower right)

pastel on paper mounted along the edges on board

Sheet size: 20 ¾ x 14 1⁄8 in. (52.4 x 35.9 cm.)

Executed circa 1897-1900





Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist.

Madeleine de Galéa, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.

Jacques Gérard, New York; his estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 25 February 1974, lot 34.

Gregory & Lucie Javitch, Montreal.

Private collection, United States.

Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above in 1987; sale, Christie's, New York, 16 May 1990, lot 109.

Private collection, Japan, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie’s, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 155.

Private collection, Germany, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999.



Literature

A. Vollard, Degas: Quatre-vingt-dix-huit reproductions signées par Degas (peintures, pastels, dessins et estampes), Paris, 1914 (illustrated pl. LXXXVIII).

P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, no. 1300, p. 756 (illustrated p. 757).

V. Endicott Barnett, The Guggenheim Museum: Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, New York, 1978, p. 48.
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