Edgar Degas

Les Entraîneurs

Auction Closed

November 15, 01:19 AM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 4,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Les Entraîneurs

signed Degas (lower left)

pastel on paper laid down on card affixed to canvas

15 ⅛ by 34 ⅞ in. 38.4 by 88.6 cm.

Executed circa 1892-94.

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顯赫私人收藏

埃德加・德加

1834 - 1917年

《練馬師》

款識：藝術家簽名 Degas（左下）

粉彩紙本置於卡板之上，再貼於畫布

15 ⅛ x 34 ⅞ 英寸；38.4 x 88.6 公分

Jean-Paul Aubry, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 May 1897, no. 44 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Paul Cassirer, Paris and Berlin (acquired from the above on 30 March 1899)
Professor Emil Heilbuth, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin and Montreux
M. Knoedler & Co., Paris and London
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland (acquired by 1923)
Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above circa 1958)
Ronne and Joseph S. Wohl Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1967)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 2000)
Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above on 11 August 2015 by the present owner

Camille Mauclair; Georges Grappe; Gustave Kahn, Modern French Masters, London, 1908, p. 20, p. 12, illustrated

Georges Grappe, Edgar Degas, Paris, 1909, p. 12, illustrated

Georges Grappe, L'Art et le beau, Paris, 1911, p. 12, illustrated

The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 16, no. 9, 1929, p. 167 (titled The Race Horses)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1946, no. 597bis, p. 337, illustrated (dated circa 1880)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1954, pl. 89, illustrated

Paul-André Lemoisne, “Degas: Peintre des chevaux,” Le jardin des arts, no. 9, 1955, p. 516, illustrated

Jean Bouret, Degas, Paris, 1965, p. 227, illustrated

Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography, Middlesex, 1974, p. 206 (dated circa 1880)

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 689, p. 118, illustrated (titled Horsemen [Cavalieri])

Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. 689, p. 118, illustrated

Sophie Monneret, L’Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré, vol. III, Paris, 1980, p. 217

Bernard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds., Kunstsalon Cassirer, vol. I, Wädenswil, 2011, pp. 65 and 485, illustrated

Berlin, Bruno and Paul Cassirer Gallerie, Ausstellung von Werken von Max Liebermann, H.G.E. Degas, Constantin Meunier, 1898, no. 78
London, M. Knoedler & Co., Nineteenth Century French Painters, 1923, no. 14
The Cleveland Museum of Art, French Art Since 1800, 1929, no. 167
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1936, no. 270
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Works by Edgar Degas, 1947, no. 42 (dated circa 1880)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings from Private Collections, 1967
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Degas' Racing World, 1968, no. 8 (dated circa 1880)
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Edgar Degas Exhibition, 1978, no. 21 (dated circa 1880)
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Races, 1998, no. 97, pp. 158-159 and 258
Winona, Minnesota, Minnesota Marine Art Museum (on loan 2015-2022)