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Edgar Degas
Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bras gauche en avant, première étude
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bras gauche en avant, première étude
inscribed with artist's signature, numbered 14 and stamped HER; stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
bronze
height: 8¼ in
21 cm.
Conceived in wax circa 1882-1895; this example executed in an edition numbered A to T, plus 2 casts marked HER and HER.D.
Hôtel Drouot Paris, 24 November 1964, lot 42
Marlborough Fine Art, New York
Mr and Mrs Josef Rosensaft, New York
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet New York, 17 March 1976, lot 26 (consigned by the above)
Edgar M. Bronfman, New York (acquired from the above)
Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Rex Irwin, Woollahra, Australia
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Marlborough Fine Art, New York
Mr and Mrs Josef Rosensaft, New York
Sotheby's Parke-Bernet New York, 17 March 1976, lot 26 (consigned by the above)
Edgar M. Bronfman, New York (acquired from the above)
Alex. Reid & Lefevre, London
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Rex Irwin, Woollahra, Australia
Acquired from the above by the present owner
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, New York, 1944, no. XXXVII, p. 92, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S1, p. 140, illustration of another cast
Charles Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 18, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXXVII, p. 113, illustration of another cast
Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 1, p. 153, illustrations of the wax and of another cast
Sara Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné' in Apollo, London, August 1995, p. 17-18, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas. Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 148-149, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum. Nineteenth-century Art, London, 2009, pp. 348, 512-13, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S1, p. 140, illustration of another cast
Charles Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 18, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXXVII, p. 113, illustration of another cast
Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 1, p. 153, illustrations of the wax and of another cast
Sara Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné' in Apollo, London, August 1995, p. 17-18, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas. Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 148-149, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum. Nineteenth-century Art, London, 2009, pp. 348, 512-13, illustration of another cast
Woollahra, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sculpture and the Figure, 2007, illustrated in the catalogue and on the cover