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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Edgar Degas

Danseuse à la barre

Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Danseuse à la barre

stamped Degas (lower left)

charcoal and pastel on paper

47 by 30.1 cm. 18½ by 12¼ in.

Framed: 83.5 by 68.5 cm. 32⅞ by 27 in.

Executed circa 1875-76.

Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Edgar Degas, 3ème Vente, 7-9 April 1919, lot 367 (consigned by the above)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (by 1959)

Scott and Fowles, New York

Henry Osborne Havemeyer, New York

Electra Havemeyer Webb Bostwick, New York

Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York

Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich

Norton Simon Museum of Art, Los Angeles (acquired by 1968)

Sotheby's, London, 2 April 1974, lot 43 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Sotheby's, London, 5 February 2020, lot 370 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, Wildenstein and Co. Inc., Degas, 1919, no. 34

Portland, Art Museum, Recent Acquisitions by the Norton Simon Inc. Museum of Art, 1968, n.n.

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, no. 379, p. 747, illustrated

Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, no. 13, p. 338, illustrated (titled Danseuse de Degourdissant a la barre)

Jean Sutherland Boggs, 'Danseuses à la barre by Degas' in National Gallery of Canada, Bulletin 3, vol. II:1, 1964, n.n., illustrated (titled Dancer and dated circa 1874) (https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/bulletin/num3/boggs1.html, accessed on 31 May 2024)

Jean Bouret, Degas, New York, 1965, n.n., p. 252, illustrated

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 492, illustrated p. 109

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum. Nineteenth-century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, fig. 12, n.p., illustrated