A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
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 Museum, Nineteenth-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)
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