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Property of a Private Midwest Collector
Edgar Degas
Femme se lavant la jambe gauche
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October 4, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Midwest Collector
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Femme se lavant la jambe gauche
stamped with artist's signature, numbered 17/H (on the base); stamped with the foundry mark Cire Perdue A.A.Hébrard
bronze
height: 6 in.
15.2 cm.
Conceived circa 1896-1911; this example executed in 1955 in an edition of 22 numbered from A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the foundry Hébard.
O'Hana Gallery, London
Private Collection, Stockholm
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo (acquired from the above on 3 March 1966)
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above on 1 April 1967)
Thence by descent to the present owner
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture - A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. L.XII, p. 172, illustration of another cast
Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002-03, pp. 154-55, illustrations of another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Nineteenth-Century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 88, pp. 438-440, illustrations of another cast