EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Lot 333
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1508123
Lot 333 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Valeur estimée
$ 300 000 – 500 000
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Cheval faisant une 'descente de main'
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 22/H A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with reddish-brown patina
Length: 10 5/8 in. (27.5 cm.)
Height: 7 ½ in. (18 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; 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

Etienne Vautheret, Lyon (June 1922).
Galerie Creuzevault, Paris.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, April 1964).
Lucille Ellis and Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, May 1964).
Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles (1970); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 8 November 2000, lot 7.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

P. Vitry, Catalogue des sculptures du Moyen âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes, Supplément, Paris, 1933, p. 70, no. 1763.
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 20, no. XII (another cast illustrated, pp. 46 and 47).
P. Borel, Les sculptures inédites de Degas: choix de cires originales, Geneva, 1949 (original wax model illustrated; titled Cheval).
J. Fèvre, Mon oncle Degas, souvenirs et documents, Geneva, 1949, p. 8 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald and L. von Matt, Degas, Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, p. 143, no. XII (original wax model illustrated, pl. 8).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 142, no. S46 (another cast illustrated, p. 143).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. xiv, no. 63 (original wax model illustrated, p. 177).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 66, no. XII (another cast illustrated; original wax model illustrated, p. 67).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 175, no. 46 (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated again, pls. 90-91).
S. Campbell, "Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, vol. CXLII, August 1995, no. 402, pp. 21-22, no. 22 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, p. 165, no. 22 (original wax model illustrated; another cast illustrated in color, p. 164).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, pp. 267-270 and 518-519, no. 44 (original wax model illustrated, p. 268; another cast illustrated in color, p. 269).
S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 99-102, no. 12 (original wax model illustrated in color, pp. 100-101, fig. 2).
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