Edgar Degas

Danseuse assise

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold to Benefit the O'Donnell Foundation

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Danseuse assise

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

charcoal on paper

18⅜ by 12¼ in.

46.7 by 31.1 cm.

Executed in 1892.

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

Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Edgar Degas, 4ème vente, 2-4 July 1919, lot 208-1 (consigned by the above)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the above)

Henry Hyde, Chicago

Private Collection, Boston (acquired from the above in 1939)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired by 1989)

Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston

Acquired from the above in 1991 by the present owner

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, 1938
New York, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Master Drawings 1520-1990, 1989