Edgar Degas

Après le bain

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Dale Chihuly

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Après le bain

stamped Degas (lower left); stamped with the atelier mark (on the verso)

charcoal heightened with bistre on paper mounted on board

27⅜ by 34⅜ in.

69.5 by 87.3 cm.

Executed circa 1894.

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

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Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Edgar Degas, 4ème vente, 2-4 July 1919, lot 291 (consigned by the above)

Henri Cottevielle (acquired from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries New York, 16 May 1962, lot 26A

Christie's London, 1 December 1967, lot 52

Peters Collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's London, 5 December 1967, lot 512

Stephen Mazoh & Co, New York

Private Collection, New York

Marlborough Fine Art, New York

Acquired from the above on 1 April 2000 by the present owner

Richard Kendall, "The Most Merciless Draughtsman in the World: The Drawings of Edgar Degas," Apollo, 1953, vol. CXXXII, no. 353, pp. 29-32, fig. 3, illustrated