Lot 201
  • 201

Edgar Degas

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Description

  • Edgar Degas
  • The Grandstand (Study for `Le faux depart')
  • With the atelier stamp, verso (Lugt 657)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 9 1/4 by 14 1/4 in.
  • 23.5 by 36.3cm

Provenance

Jeanne Fevre, Nice (niece of the artist)
Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney (acquired in August 1960, a gift from an unknown source)

Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, The John Hay Whitney Collection, 1961, no. 17, illustrated
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Races, no. 54, illustrated p. 99

Literature

Manet and Modern Paris (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982,  fig. 74, illustrated p. 146