EDGAR DEGAS | FEMME NUE ASSISE, S'ESSUYANT LES CHEVEUX

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October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

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Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections

EDGAR DEGAS

1834 - 1917

FEMME NUE ASSISE, S'ESSUYANT LES CHEVEUX

Stamped Degas (lower left)

Pastel on paper mounted on board

25¼ by 27⅝ in.

64 by 70.2 cm

Executed circa 1902.

Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid. Please note the estimate of this work has been lowered to $800,000 - 1,200,000.

Estate of the artist (and sold: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 2ème Vente, December 11-13, 1918, lot 66)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Mrs. Leo Smith, New York

A gift from the above in 1954

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1413, illustrated p. 813

Robert Rosenblum, "Varieties of Impressionism" in Art Digest, vol. 29, New York, October 1, 1954, p. 7

Hertha Wegener, "French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum" in The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin, vol. XVI, no. 1, New York, autumn 1954, illustrated n.p. & on the cover

Franco Russoli, L'Opera Completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 1047, illustrated p. 133

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, New York & London, 1984, no. 1413, illustrated p. 813

Degas (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1986, illustrated p. 195

Linda Kramer, Karyn Zieve & Sarah Faunce, French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Watercolors in the Brooklyn Museum, no. 36, illustrated p. 57