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A Sculptor’s Eye: Property from Anthony Caro's Personal Collection

Edgar Degas

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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


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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