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Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 GBP
bidding is closed
Description
- Edgar Degas
- after the bath III (reed & shapiro 65)
- Sheet 348 by 324mm; 13 3/4 by 12 1/2 in
Lithograph, 1898, signed in pencil, first state (of two), before the transfer to a smaller stone and the erasure of the background, chair and maid, with embossed marks on woman's back and the towel, on thick cream laid paper, with margins (a deckled edge of three sides), very slight mount-staining, a short soft diagonal crease in upper right margin
Catalogue Note
Reed and Shapiro record only some twenty impressions of this state, of which many were signed. One unsigned impression from the Atelier sale is now in the Albertina, Vienna. Although the authors record that this state was printed on wove paper, the present impression is printed on laid paper.
The composition of this print is based on the final state of After the Bath II which was transfered to a new stone. Although the foreground and the white scratches in the woman's hair remained the same, Degas extended the composition by adding a rounded chair back and a servant holding a towel. He used multipointed tools to scratch the stone which have left a series of embossed marks in the paper on the woman's back and the towel.
The composition of this print is based on the final state of After the Bath II which was transfered to a new stone. Although the foreground and the white scratches in the woman's hair remained the same, Degas extended the composition by adding a rounded chair back and a servant holding a towel. He used multipointed tools to scratch the stone which have left a series of embossed marks in the paper on the woman's back and the towel.