Lot 346
  • 346

Edgar Degas

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Description

  • Edgar Degas
  • Danseuse vue en buste
  • Stamped with the signature (Lugt 658) (lower left)
  • Charcoal on paper laid down on board
  • 39 1/2 by 27 1/2 in.
  • 100.4 by 69.8cm

Provenance

Atelier Edgar Degas (sold: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3ème Vente Degas, April 7-9, 1919, lot 281)
Lillie P. Bliss, New York (Vice President and Founder of Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift of the above in 1934)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in January 1944 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 17, 1998, lot 238)
Guggenheim Asher Associates, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Lillie P. Bliss Memorial Exhibition, 1931, no. 61

Literature

The Lillie P. Bliss Collection 1934, New York, 1934, no. 32, illustrated