Edgar Degas

Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche, première étude |《舞者，正面左腿第四式，第一習作》

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Property of a Private Collection, Europe

歐洲私人收藏

Edgar Degas

埃德加・德加

1834 - 1917

Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche, première étude

《舞者，正面左腿第四式，第一習作》

inscribed Degas, numbered 6/B and stamped with the foundry mark cire perdue A.A.Hébrard

款識：藝術家銘刻Degas，標記6/B並蓋鑄造廠章cire perdue A. A. Hébrard

bronze

青銅

height: 40.5cm., 15in.

高：40.5 公分；15 英寸

Conceived in wax between circa 1885-1890 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919, in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts inscribed HER and HER.D. The present example was cast by 1921.

約1885至1911年構思，由A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris於1919至1921年鑄銅，1版20件，標記A至T，另有2個銘刻HER及HER.D之版本。

Walther Halvorsen, Paris & Oslo (acquired by 1921)

Mary Quinn Sullivan, New York (sold: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 30th April 1937, lot 214)

Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York (purchased at the above sale)

Edward G. Robinson, Los Angeles (sold: Sotheby's, London, 3rd July 1973, lot 2)

Waddington Gallery, London (purchased at the above sale)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the above by 1991)

Alain Lesieutre, Paris (sold: Hôtel Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 54 Œuvres provenant de la Collection d'Alain Lesieutre, 24th November 1992, lot 35)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

J. Rewald, Degas. Works in Sculpture. A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. LV, another cast illustrated p. 26

J. Rewald & L. van Matt, L'œuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. LV, another cast illustrated pls. 41 & 42

F. Russoli & F. Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S 9, wax model illustrated p. 141

J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture. Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LV, another cast illustrated pp. 148 & 149

A. Pingeot & F. Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 9, another cast illustrated pp. 54-55 & 156

S. Campbell, 'Degas. The Sculptures. A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 6, August 1995, another cast illustrated p. 14

J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures. Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 6, another cast illustrated pp. 132 & 133

S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D. Barbour & S. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, no. 63, another cast illustrated pp. 341-343