Important Prints and Multiples Evening Sale
Important Prints and Multiples Evening Sale
EDGAR DEGAS | SINGER AT A CAFÉ-CONCERT (DELTEIL 53; ADHÉMAR 33; REED & SHAPIRO 26)
Auction Closed
October 25, 12:01 AM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
EDGAR DEGAS
1834 - 1917
SINGER AT A CAFÉ-CONCERT (DELTEIL 53; ADHÉMAR 33; REED & SHAPIRO 26)
Lithograph, 1876-77, Reed & Shapiro's first state of two, one of at least 14 impressions, on wove paper
image: 255 by 192 mm 10 by 7½ in
sheet: 291 by 220 mm 11½ by 8¾ in
Ex coll. Richard H. Zinser, and with his inkstamp on the verso (not yet in Lugt)
Nicholas Stogdon has noted that “this may in fact be the first lithograph Degas made, and it appears to be the only one drawn directly on to a stone.” Evocative of many important late 19th c. images, it most likely was the inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec’s color lithograph published in L’Estampe Originale in 1894.