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Property from an Important Private Collection

Edgar Degas

Danseuse

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Danseuse

signed Degas (lower right)

pastel on paper mounted on board

21 ¼ by 14 ½ in. 54 by 36.8 cm.

Executed circa 1897-1900.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

The Estate of Amboise Vollard, Paris

(possibly) Madeleine de Galéa, Paris 

Jacques Gerard, New York

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 25 February 1974, lot 34 (consigned by the above)

Gregory and Lucie Javitch, Montreal

Private Collection, United States

Christie’s, New York, 12 May 1987, lot 38

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1987)

Christie's, New York, 16 May 1990, lot 109 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Japan (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 155 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Germany (acquired at the above sale)

Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

(possibly) Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Paintings from the Vollard Collection, 1950, no. 11

Ambroise Vollard, Degas: Quatre-vingt-dix-huit reproductions signées par Degas (Peintures, pastels, dessins et estampes), Paris, 1914, pl. LXXXVIII, illustrated

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1300, pp. 756-57, illustrated

Vivian Endicott Barnett, The Guggenheim Museum: Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, New York, 1978, p. 48