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Edgar Degas

Cheval au galop sur le pied droit, le pied gauche arrière seul touchant terre & Jockey monté sur le cheval

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November 19, 07:41 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Cheval au galop sur le pied droit, le pied gauche arrière seul touchant terre & Jockey monté sur le cheval


The horse: inscribed Degas, numbered 25/Q, and stamped with the foundry mark Cire Perdue A.A. Hebrard

The jockey: numbered 35/Q

Bronze

Length: 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm)

Each conceived in 1865-81 and cast in bronze after 1919 in an edition of 20 numbered A to T, plus 2 casts reserved for the Degas heirs marked HER.D and HER by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris.

Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris
Francart, Zug, Switzerland
Alex, Reid & Lefevre (The Lefevre Gallery), London
Marlborough Fine Art, London
Mrs. William Wood Prince, Chicago (and sold: Christie's, New York, May 19, 1981, lot 322)
Nathan & Marion Smooke, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale and sold by the estate: Phillips, New York, November 5, 2001, lot 72)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Edmonton, Art Gallery of Alberta, Degas: Figures in Motion, 2012, no. 35, illustrated in the catalogue
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Degas: The Late Work, 2012-13, n.n 
John Rewald, Edgar Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, nos. XIV & XV, illustration of another cast of both works pp. 52-53
Edgar Degas, Original Wax Sculptures (exhibition catalogue), M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, nos. 14 & 15, illustration of another cast of both works n.p.
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich, 1957, nos. XIV & XV, illustration of another cast of both works pp. 14-15 & 21 & of another cast of the horse p. 20
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, nos. S. 49 & S. 50, illustration of another cast of both works n.p.
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pl. 64, illustrations of another cast of both works n.p. & on the title page
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, nos. XIV & XV, illustration of another cast of both works pp. 70-71
Anne Pingeot & Martin Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, nos. 49 & 50, illustration of another cast of both works p. 176-77
Sara Campbell, "Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, August 1995, London, nos. 25 & 35, illustration of another cast of both works p. 23
Joseph S. Czestochwski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, nos. 25 & 35, illustration of another cast of both works p. 170
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour & Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, nos. 45 & 46, illustrations of another cast of both works p. 273, of another cast of the horse pp. 271-72 & 274 & of another cast of the jockey pp. 276-77