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Property from a Private Collection
Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche, troisième étude
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May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
550,000 - 700,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sure la jambe gauche, troisième étude
stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 58/O (on the base)
bronze
height: 23 ¼ in. 59 cm.
Conceived in wax circa 1882-85; this example cast in bronze by A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris, from 1919.
Marlborough Gallery Ltd., London
Richard and Dorothy Rodgers, New York (acquired from the above in November 1951)
Christie's, New York, 11 November 1992, lot 4 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by 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, pp. 32 and 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, 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, 1987, p. 49, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas’s 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, 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
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 64, pp. 344-47, illustrations of another cast
Susan Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Edgar Degas Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 2010, no. 28, pp. 191-93, illustrations of the wax version and another cast
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Music Makers, 1959, no. 5, p. 6
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