EDGAR DEGAS | Carnet II

Marcel Guérin, Paris
Private Collection, New York
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in 1994

Theodore Reff, The Notebooks of Edgar Degas, A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections, New York, vol. I, 1985, no. 17, catalogued p. 91-92; vol. II, no. 17, illustrated n.p.

Eighteen sketches executed on a calendar which has been cut and mounted to individual cards which has in turn been mounted into pages of a book with a t-hinge along the top edge of their versos. Some of the sheets are irregularly cut and slightly time struck overall. There are areas of light discoloration around the edges of some of the sheets. Sketch on page 4 appears to be repaired along the lower right edge. Sketch on page 8 has a quarter-inch repair along the right half of the top edge. Sketch on page 9 has a half-inch repair along the top edge. Sketch on page 15 has a repair in the upper left corner and some additional tears in the lower register which have been laid down in the mounting process. The work is in good condition.
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The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau.