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EDGAR DEGAS | Danseuse habillée au repos, les mains sur les reins, la jambe droite en avant
Description
- Edgar Degas
- Danseuse habillée au repos, les mains sur les reins, la jambe droite en avant
- stamped Degas, numbered 51/O and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard cire perdue
- bronze
- height: 43.2cm.
- 17in.
- Conceived in wax in 1895-1905 and cast in bronze from 1919. The present example was cast by 1926.
Provenance
Moritz Gutmann, Berlin & New York (founder of the French Art Galleries, New York; probably acquired from the above)
Georges Bigar, New York & Lausanne (acquired from the above by 1967)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1986
Exhibited
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, 1967, no. 21, illustrated in the catalogue
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Impressionnisme dans les collections romandes, 1984, no. 34, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Literature
Pierre Borel, Les Sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949, another cast illustrated
John Rewald, L'Œuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich & Paris, 1957, no. LII, another cast illustrated pl. 52
Theodore Reff, Degas: The Artist's Mind, New York, 1976, no. 159, another cast illustrated p. 241
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LII, wax model and another cast illustrated pp. 142 & 143
Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 23, wax model and another cast illustrated p. 163
Sara Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 51, fig. 49, another cast illustrated p. 35; the present cast listed p. 36
Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 51, wax model and another cast illustrated pp. 220 & 221; the present cast listed p. 221
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, London, 2009, vol. II, no. 78, wax model and another cast illustrated pp. 400-402
Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour & Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, wax model illustrated p. 370
Catalogue Note
A number of bronze casts of Danseuse habillée au repos, les mains sur les reins, la jambe droite en avant are now in international museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Musée d’Orsay in Paris and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
This lot is sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim and the present owners.