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Property from a Private Collection, Massachusetts

EDGAR DEGAS | CHEVAL PUR-SANG AU PAS

Lot Closed

May 18, 04:27 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Massachusetts

EDGAR DEGAS

(1834 - 1917)

CHEVAL PUR-SANG AU PAS


Stamped Degas, numbered 66/D and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hebrard Cire Perdue

Bronze

Length: 7½ in. (19.1 cm)

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. The present example cast by 1929.

Holst Halvorsen, London

Justin K. Thannhauser, Lucerne & New York (acquired on August 12, 1929)

Wilhelm Weinberg, Scarsdale, New York

Sale: Sotheby's, London, July 10, 1957, lot 4

Frank Partridge, London (acquired at the above sale)

Sir Leon Bagrit, London (likely acquired from the above)

Thence by descent

John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 19, illustration of another cast pl. 40

Franco Russoli, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S.38, illustration of another cast p. 143

Charles Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 13, illustration of another cast fig. 13

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. V, illustration of another cast p. 52

Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," in Apollo, London, August 1995, vol. CXLII, no. 402, no. 66, illustration of another cast p. 43

Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 66, illustration of another cast p. 251-52

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rondom Rodin: Tentoonstelling Honderd Jaar Fransche Sculptuur, 1939-40, no. 101