Lot 374
  • 374

Edgar Degas

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Edgar Degas
  • Cheval au galop, tournant la tête à droite, les pieds ne touchant pas terre; jockey monté sur le cheval
  • Inscribed Degas, numbered 32/Q and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hebrard Cire Perdue; numbered 36/Q (on the jockey)


  • Bronze
  • Length (including base): 14 3/8 in.
  • 36.5 cm

Provenance

Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris
The Lefevre Gallery, London
William & Eleanor Wood Prince, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1954 and sold: Christie's, New York, May 7, 2009, lot 211)
Acquired at the above sale

Literature

Degas Racing World (exhibition catalogue), Wildenstein Galleries, New York, 1968, no. 122, illustration of another cast n.p.
Degas (exhibition catalogue), l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1969, no. 13, illustration of another cast n.p.
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, illustration of another cast p. 143
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, nos. XVII & XVIII, illustration of another cast pp. 74-75
Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, London, August 1995, illustration of other casts pp. 26 & 27
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas at the Races (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998, no. 115, illustration of another cast p. 189
Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 32, illustrations of other casts pp. 184 & 185
Sarah Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Nineteenth-Century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 36, illustration of another cast p. 243

Condition

Work is in very good condition. Light brown patina. Spots of patina loss around saddle and underside of jockey as a result of contact between the two elements. Some very minor surface dirt in crevices, otherwise fine.
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