A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction

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Edgar Degas

Grande arabesque, troisième temps

Auction Closed

November 19, 12:49 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Edgar Degas

(1834 - 1917)


Grande arabesque, troisième temps

stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 16/T

bronze

length: 22 ⅝ in. 57.5 cm.

Conceived in wax circa 1882-95 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919.

Mme. de Maistre, Paris

The Lefevre Gallery (Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the above in 1962)

Sir Isaac Wolfson, United Kingdom (acquired from the above on 30 April 1964)

Private Collection, London

Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1986, lot 12 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1995)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris (acquired from the above)

Susan Seidel, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XL, p. 24; p. 95, illustration of another cast

Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, no. 155, n.p., illustration of another cast; p. 388

Exh. Cat., Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Renoir. Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures, 1958, no. 24, pl. XVII, illustration of another cast

John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, London, 1957, no. XL, pl. 33, illustration of another cast

Pierre Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Paris, 1959, pl. IX, illustration of another cast

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S8, p. 140, illustration of another cast

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 91, illustration of the wax

Exh. Cat., London, The Lefevre Gallery, The Complete Sculpture of Degas, 1976, no. 8, p. 10; p. 27, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Sculptures of Degas, 1982, no. 19, p. 17, illustration of another cast; p. 39

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago, Degas, 1984, p. 155, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Verona, Palazzo Forti, Degas Scultore, 1986, p. 181, illustrations of another cast

Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, New York, 1988, p. 208, illustrations of another cast

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XL, p. 118, illustration of the wax; p. 119, illustration of another cast

Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 7, pp. 68-71 and 155-56, illustrations of another cast

Sara Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, 1995, no. 16, p. 18, illustration of another cast; p. 19

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 16, p. 152, illustration in color of another cast; p. 153, illustration of another cast and of the wax

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon MuseumNineteenth-Century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 68, pp. 358-61, illustrations in color of another cast; p. 514

Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Degas' Method, 2013, no. 130, p. 306, illustration in color of another cast; p. 307

London, The National Gallery (on extended loan from 1983-85)