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Property of a Private Collector
Edgar Degas
Position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche
Auction Closed
May 18, 09:51 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche
stamped with artist's signature and numbered 58/E; stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard, Cire-Perdue
bronze
height: 23⅛ in.
58.7 cm.
Conceived in wax between circa 1885-90; this example executed in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts marked HER and HER.D.
Mme Kramer, Paris (acquired by the 1950s)
M. Higgons, Paris
Daniel Malingue, Paris
Schumberg Collection, St. Louis
William Kennedy, New York
Nathan and Marion Smooke, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on 31 January 1974)
Private Collection, United States
Thence by descent to the present owner
M. Higgons, Paris
Daniel Malingue, Paris
Schumberg Collection, St. Louis
William Kennedy, New York
Nathan and Marion Smooke, Los Angeles (acquired from the above on 31 January 1974)
Private Collection, United States
Thence by descent to the present owner
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1941, p. 131, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XLIII, p. 98, illustration of another cast
Leonard Von Matt and John Rewald, Degas: Sculpture, Zurich, 1956, no. XLIII, pls. 32, 43-44, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervo, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S911, p. 141, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, catalogued pp. 24 and 106, pl. 89, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat. New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters: The John C. Whitehead Collection, illustration of another cast
Collection in Progress, 1987, p. 49, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas’ Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLIII, pp. 124-25, illustrations of the wax version and another cast
Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 10, p. 157, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, p. 39, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat. New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, From Daumier to Matisse: Selections from the John C. Whitehead Collection, 2002, p. 6, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 58, pp. 234-35, illustrations of another cast
Susan Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Edgar Degas Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, no. 28, pp. 191-93 illustrations of the wax version and another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 64, pp. 344-47, illustrations of another cast
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XLIII, p. 98, illustration of another cast
Leonard Von Matt and John Rewald, Degas: Sculpture, Zurich, 1956, no. XLIII, pls. 32, 43-44, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervo, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S911, p. 141, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, catalogued pp. 24 and 106, pl. 89, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat. New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters: The John C. Whitehead Collection, illustration of another cast
Collection in Progress, 1987, p. 49, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas’ Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLIII, pp. 124-25, illustrations of the wax version and another cast
Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 10, p. 157, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, p. 39, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat. New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, From Daumier to Matisse: Selections from the John C. Whitehead Collection, 2002, p. 6, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 58, pp. 234-35, illustrations of another cast
Susan Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Edgar Degas Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, no. 28, pp. 191-93 illustrations of the wax version and another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 64, pp. 344-47, illustrations of another cast