Important Prints and Multiples Evening Sale
Important Prints and Multiples Evening Sale
EDGAR DEGAS | AFTER THE BATH (LARGE VERSION) (D. 64; ADH. 68; R. & S. 66)
Auction Closed
October 25, 12:01 AM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
EDGAR DEGAS
1834 - 1917
AFTER THE BATH (LARGE VERSION) (D. 64; ADH. 68; R. & S. 66)
Lithograph, 1891-92, Reed & Shapiro's fifth (final) state, on laid paper
image: 300 by 310 mm 11¾ by 12¼ in
sheet: 415 by 484 mm 16¼ by 19 in
Ex coll. Richard H. Zinser, and with his inkstamp on the verso (not yet in Lugt)
Nicholas Stogdon has suggested that “the ‘bather’ lithographs represent the last campaign of printmaking Degas was to undertake himself… and true to form Degas was soon combining his long-standing interest in the motif of the shapely nude drying herself with some of the repertory of current technical innovations.”