Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Edgar Degas
Femme assise s'essuyant le côté gauche
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
Femme assise s'essuyant le côté gauche
inscribed with artist's signature and numbered 46/I; stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
bronze
height: 13¾ in.
35 cm
Conceived in wax circa 1896-1911; this example executed in an edition numbered A to T, plus 2 casts marked HER and HER.D.
Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired by 1950)
Christie's London, 28 June 1982, lot 5A
Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired from the above)
Christie's New York, 13 November 1996, lot 118
Acquired from the above by the present owner
John Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, London, 1944, no. LXIX, pl.134-35, illustrations of the wax version and another cast
John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1956, no. LXIX, p. 159, pls. 85-88, illustrations of another cast
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorello Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S67, p. 145, illustration of another cast
Abram Lerner, eds., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, no. 210, p. 161, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 109, pl. 133, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXIX, pp. 176-77 & 200, illustrations of another cast
Anne Pigeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 59, pls. 122-23, pp. 169-70, illustrations of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas: The Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, August 1995, no. 46, p. 33, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 46, pp. 211-12, illustrations of other casts
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 93, pp. 458-59 & 536, illustrations of another cast
John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1956, no. LXIX, p. 159, pls. 85-88, illustrations of another cast
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorello Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S67, p. 145, illustration of another cast
Abram Lerner, eds., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, no. 210, p. 161, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 109, pl. 133, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXIX, pp. 176-77 & 200, illustrations of another cast
Anne Pigeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 59, pls. 122-23, pp. 169-70, illustrations of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas: The Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, August 1995, no. 46, p. 33, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 46, pp. 211-12, illustrations of other casts
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 93, pp. 458-59 & 536, illustrations of another cast