Lot 413
  • 413

Edgar Degas

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Edgar Degas
  • Cheval de trait
  • Inscribed Degas, numbered 30/T and stamped with the foundry mark Cire Perdue A.A. Hebrard 
  • Bronze
  • Length: 7 1/2 in.
  • 19 cm

Provenance

Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris (acquired by 1955)
O'Hana Gallery, London
Alex & Rita Hillman, New York (acquired from the above in 1957)
Thence by descent

Exhibited

London, O'Hana Gallery, French Masters, 1957


Literature

John Rewald, ed., Degas, Works in Sculpture—A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. VII, illustration of another cast p. 23
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, fig. 59, illustration of another cast n.n.
Maurice Guillard, ed., Degas, Form and Space, Paris, 1984, no. 221, illustration of another cast p. 210
Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 45, illustration of the wax original p. 175
Emily Braun, The Hillman Family Collection, Seattle & Washington, D.C., 2009, no. 11, illustrated p. 61
Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 30, illustrations of another cast & of the wax original pp. 180-81 
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Nineteenth-Century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 41, illustrations of another cast pp. 225-27

Condition

Blackish brown patina. The work is affixed to a wooden base. There is some minor patina rubbing along the horse's back and haunches as well as along the edges of the bronze base. There are a few scattered nicks to the surface and some glue residue visible between the bronze and the wooden base. But, overall the work is in good condition.
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