Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 235. Portrait of Célestine Fèvre.

Property from a Private Collection, USA

Edgar Degas

Portrait of Célestine Fèvre

Lot Closed

March 26, 12:34 PM GMT

Estimate

28,000 - 35,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, USA

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Portrait of Célestine Fèvre


dated 23 décembre 1867 (lower right)

pencil on paper

30.4 by 25.5cm., 12 by 10in.

Framed: 58.5 by 49cm., 23 by 19¼in.

Drawn on 23rd December 1867.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau.

The Fèvre Family (a gift from the artist)
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Private Collection, USA
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1966
Jeanne Fèvre & Pierre Cailler (ed), Mon oncle Degas, Geneva, 1949, illustrated pp. 64-65
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Portraits by Degas, 1962, mentioned p. 117