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Edgar Degas

Danseuse mettant son bas, première étude

Auction Closed

March 2, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Danseuse mettant son bas, première étude


inscribed Degas, numbered 29/B and stamped with the foundry mark cire perdue A.A.Hébrard

bronze

height: 47cm., 19in.

Conceived in wax between circa 1890-1895 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919, in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts inscribed HER and HER.D. The present example was cast by 1921.


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埃德加・德加

1834 - 1917年

《穿長襪的舞者,第一習作》


款識:藝術家銘刻Degas、標記29/B並蓋鑄造廠章cire perdue A.A.Hébrard

青銅

高:47 公分;19 英寸

約1890-1895年構思並製成蠟模,1919年起由巴黎A.A. Hébrard鑄造廠以青銅鑄造,1版20件,標記A至T,另有2件銘刻HER及HER.D。此作於1921年或之前鑄造。

Walther Halvorsen, Paris & Oslo (acquired by 1921)
Mary Quinn Sullivan, New York (sold: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 30th April 1937, lot 212)
Major Edward J. Bowes, New York (purchased at the above sale. Sold by his estate: Kende Galleries, New York, 1st November 1946, lot 31)
Mrs Jack L. Warner, Beverly Hills (sold: Sotheby's, New York, 15th May 1985, lot 315)
Grob Gallery, London (purchased at the above sale)
Jan Krugier Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above. Sold: Sotheby's, New York, 8th May 2014, lot 151)
Purchased at the above sale by the previous owner

John Rewald, Degas. Works in Sculpture. A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. LVI, illustration of another cast illustrated p. 121

Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S 14, the wax model illustrated p. 141

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 104, another cast illustrated

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LVI, the wax model illustrated p. 150 & another cast p. 151

Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 14, another cast illustrated pp. 128-29 & 159

Sarah Campbell, 'Degas. The Sculptures. A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 29, August 1995, another cast illustrated p. 25

Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 29, another cast illustrated pp. 178 & 179

Sara Cambell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, London, 2009, no. 80, another cast illustrated pp. 408-11 (titled Dancer putting on her stocking)

Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour & Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, no. 38, the wax model illustrated p. 235

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Bronzes by Degas, 1922

London, Ernest Brown & Phillips Ltd. (The Leicester Galleries), Works in Sculpture of Edgar Degas, 1923, no. 14

Rome, Casa Editrice d'Arte Enzo Pinci, Seconda Biennale Romana. Mostra Internazionale di Belle Arti. Sculture di Edgar Degas 1834-1917, 1923-24

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit & Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Exposition Degas, 1924, no. 266

New York, Ferargil Galleries, Sculptures of Edgar Degas, 1925, no. 14

New York, Jacques Seligman & Co., Exhibition of Bronzes and Drawings by Degas, 1935, no. 33

Shanghai, Yun Contemporary Art Center, Degas and the Dancers: Bodies in Motion, 2016, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Woking, The Lightbox, Impressionism. The Art of Life, 2018-19, n.n.

Frankfurt, Städel Museum, En passant. Impressionism in Sculpture, 2020, no. 14, illustrated in colour in the catalogue