
A Sculptor’s Eye: Property from Anthony Caro's Personal Collection
Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit
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March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
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200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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A Sculptor’s Eye: Property from Anthony Caro's Personal Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit
inscribed Degas, stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A.HEBRARD and numbered 67/Q (on the base)
bronze
height: 46.5 cm. 18 ¼ in.
Conceived in wax circa 1882-95 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919.
Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris (acquired by 1949)
Francart, Zug, Switzerland
Alex Reid and Lefevre, London
(possibly) Private Collection, Montreux
Sir Edward and Lady Nika Hulton (née Princess Nika Youriévitch), London (acquired by 1964)
Sotheby’s, London, 30 June 1981, lot 5
Anthony Caro, United Kingdom (acquired from the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen; Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall and Munich, Stadt Galerie Lenbacchaus, European Travelling Exhibition, The Hulton Collection, 1964-66, no. 12, n.p., (dated 1896-1911)
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Sammlung Hulton, 1967-68, no. 14, listed (titled Tänzerin, ihre rechte Fußsohle betrachtend)
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1957, no. LX, pl. 61 and fig. 20, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, 1985
Exh. Cat., London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, In Tandem: The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century, 1986
Exh. Cat., Liverpool, Tate Liverpool and Glasgow, The Burrell Collection, Degas: Images of Women, 1989-1990, no. 34, p. 59, illustrated in colour (dated circa 1900)
Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné", Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 59, p. 40, fig. 57, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, The National Gallery and Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas: Beyond Impressionism, 1996-97, no. 85, p. 273, illustrated in colour
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 67, pp. 252-53, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, The National Gallery, Art in the Making: Degas, 2004-2005
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 75, pp. 387-90, another cast illustrated