EDGAR DEGAS | BUSTE DE JEUNE FEMME PRESQUE NUE

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May 18, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States

EDGAR DEGAS

(1834 - 1917)

BUSTE DE JEUNE FEMME PRESQUE NUE

Oil on paper mounted on cradled panel

12¾ by 9½ in. (32.5 by 24 cm)

Framed: 20 by 17½ in. (50.8 by 44.4 cm)

Painted by 1867.

Please note that this work was painted by 1867, not definitively in 1867 as was previously recorded. Please note the correct medium for this work is oil on paper mounted on cradled panel.

George Jay Gould, Lakewood, New Jersey (acquired by 1900 and sold: Silo's, New York, May 12, 1927, lot 656)

Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on May 31, 1927)

Marie Paul Voûte, Baarn (acquired from the above on November 14, 1935)

E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1955 and sold: Sotheby's, London, June 27, 1989, lot 8)

Acquired at the above sale

David C. Preyer, ed., "American Collections XXI: The Collection of George J. Gould, Esq., Lakewood, N. J.," in The Collector and Art Critic, vol. II, New York, April 1900, mentioned p. 201

René Huyghe, "Degas ou la fiction réaliste," in L'Amour de l'Art, Paris, July 1931, fig. 22, illustrated p. 277

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. II, Paris, 1946, no. 304, illustrated p. 152 (dated 1872)