Edgar Degas
Singer at a Café-Concert (Delteil 53; Adhémar 33; Reed & Shapiro 26)
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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, unframed
image: 255 by 192 mm 10 by 7 ½ in
sheet: 291 by 220 mm 11 ½ by 8 ¾ 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.