Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Private Dutch Collection
Edgar Degas
Chanteuse de café-concert
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Dutch Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Chanteuse de café-concert
signed degas (upper left)
pastel and gouache over monotype on paper
Image: 15.8 by 21cm., 6¼ by 8¼in.
Sheet: 23 by 28.5cm., 9 by 11¼in.
Framed: 41 by 47cm., 16⅛ by 18½in.
Executed circa 1875-76.
Robert Kelso Cassatt, Philadelphia
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired in 1942)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired in 1944)
Mr & Mrs Arthur Sachs, Santa Barbara, California (acquired by 1949)
Mme. Marian François-Poncet (née Sachs), Paris (by descent from the above. Sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, 7th November 2012, lot 390)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired in 1942)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired in 1944)
Mr & Mrs Arthur Sachs, Santa Barbara, California (acquired by 1949)
Mme. Marian François-Poncet (née Sachs), Paris (by descent from the above. Sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, 7th November 2012, lot 390)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Philippe Brame & Theodore Reff, Degas et son œuvre: A Supplement to Paul-André Lemoisne's Degas et son œuvre, New York & London, 1984, no. 69, illustrated p. 75