Lot 233
  • 233

Edgar Degas

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Description

  • Edgar Degas
  • Danseuse s'avancant, les bras leves, la jambe droite en avant
  • Stamped Degas (Lugt 658), stamped with the foundry mark A. A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE and numbered 72/Q
  • Bronze, brown patina
  • Height: 25 1/2 in.
  • 64.8cm

Provenance

Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris (1949)
Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London (acquired from the above in 1951)
Sale: Christie's, London, December 4, 1979, lot 7
Sale: Christie's, London, June 30, 1980, lot 27
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1982

Exhibited

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Degas, 1951-52, no. 205

Literature

John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 22, no. XXVI, illustration of another cast p. 77
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S19, p. 141,  illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas’s Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXVI, illustration of other casts pp. 90-91
Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 19, illustration of another cast p. 161
Sara Campbell, “Degas’ Bronzes”, Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 72, illustration of another cast fig. 70
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 27, pp. 262-63, illustration of another cast