Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property of a Private Collector
Edgar Degas
Cheval s’enlevant sur l’obstacle
Auction Closed
May 18, 09:51 PM GMT
Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Cheval s’enlevant sur l’obstacle
stamped with artist's signature, numbered 48/C; stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard, Cire-Perdue
bronze
height: 10⅛ in.
26.2 cm.
Conceived in wax in the late 1880s; this example executed in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts marked HER and HER.D.
Marlborough Fine Art, London (acquired in 1950)
Mrs. William Wood Prince, Chicago
Christie's New York, 19 May 1981, lot 323
Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Nathan and Marion Smooke, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1982)
Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg New York, 5 November 2001, lot 67 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection, California
Sotheby's New York, 8 November 2007, lot 198 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mrs. William Wood Prince, Chicago
Christie's New York, 19 May 1981, lot 323
Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Nathan and Marion Smooke, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1982)
Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg New York, 5 November 2001, lot 67 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection, California
Sotheby's New York, 8 November 2007, lot 198 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
John Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 43, pl. lX, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Edgar Degas, Original Wax Sculptures, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1955, no. 9, illustration of the original wax model
John Rewald, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. lX, plates 10, 11 and pp. 144-45, fig. 4, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera Completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S43, illustration of another cast
Charles Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pl. 66, illustration of the original wax model
John Rewald, The Complete Sculpture of Degas, The Lefevre Gallery, London, 1976, p. 15, no. 43, p. 62, illustration of another cast
Anne Pingeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1990, illustrations of another cast pp. 84-85, p. 173, no. 43, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pl. lX, p. 33, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas, the Sculptures, a Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, August 1995, no. 48, p. 34, illustration of another cast
Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002-03, pp. 214-15, illustrations of another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 42, pp. 259-261, illustrations of another cast
John Rewald, Edgar Degas, Original Wax Sculptures, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1955, no. 9, illustration of the original wax model
John Rewald, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. lX, plates 10, 11 and pp. 144-45, fig. 4, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera Completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S43, illustration of another cast
Charles Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pl. 66, illustration of the original wax model
John Rewald, The Complete Sculpture of Degas, The Lefevre Gallery, London, 1976, p. 15, no. 43, p. 62, illustration of another cast
Anne Pingeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1990, illustrations of another cast pp. 84-85, p. 173, no. 43, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pl. lX, p. 33, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas, the Sculptures, a Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, August 1995, no. 48, p. 34, illustration of another cast
Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002-03, pp. 214-15, illustrations of another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 42, pp. 259-261, illustrations of another cast
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Degas to Picasso, Modern Masters from the Smooke Collection, 1987, pp. 27-29, illustrated