Edgar Degas

Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bras droit à terre

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June 29, 07:06 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 GBP

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bras droit à terre

inscribed Degas, numbered 2D and stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD

bronze

height: 28cm., 11in.

Conceived in wax circa 1882-95 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919. The present example was cast by 1929.

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知名私人收藏

埃德加・德加

1834 - 1917年

《舞者，阿拉伯姿，右腿抬起，右臂靠近地面》

款識：藝術家銘刻 Degas、標記 2D 並蓋鑄造廠章 CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD

青銅

高：28 公分；11英寸

約1883-95年以蠟模構思，從1919年起由巴黎 A.A. Hébrard 鑄造廠以青銅鑄造。此作於1929年或之前鑄造

(possibly) Walther Halvorsen, Paris & Oslo
Justin K. Thannhauser, Munich, Berlin & Paris (acquired in August 1929 and until circa 1960)
Kaplan Gallery, London
Private Collection, London (acquired from the above in 1961. Sold: Christie's, London, 28th November 1988, lot 3)
Purchased at the above sale by the family of the present owner

John Rewald (ed.), Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XLI, another cast illustrated p. 96 (titled Arabesque sur la jambe droite, la main droite près de terre, le bras gauche en dehors)

Pierre Borel, Les Sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1947, the wax illustrated (titled Grande arabesque)

John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, London, 1957, no. XLI, another cast illustrated p. 152

Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S3, the wax illustrated p. 140

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLI, the wax illustrated p. 120, another cast illustrated p. 121

Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 3, another cast illustrated p. 154

Sara Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 3, August 1995, another cast illustrated p. 12

Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 2, another cast illustrated in colour pp. 124 & 125

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, no. 69, another cast illustrated in colour pp. 362-64

Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour & Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, no. 33, the wax illustrated p. 213, illustrated in colour p. 214

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rondom Rodin, Tentoonstelling Honderd Jaar Fransche Sculptuur, 1939, no. 87 (titled Arabesque ouverte, sur la jambe droite, bras gauche en dehors)
New York, Buchholz Gallery (Curt Valentin), Edgar Degas, Bronzes, Drawings, Pastels, 1945, no. 30