HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Evening

HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Evening

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Edgar Degas

Madame Henri Fèvre (Marguerite de Gas)

Auction Closed

December 7, 05:45 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Madame Henri Fèvre (Marguerite de Gas)


oil on canvas

24.5 by 19cm., 9⅝ by 7½in.

Painted circa 1868.

Michel Manzi, Paris
Mlle Diéterle, Paris (acquired by 1924)
David David-Weill, Paris (acquired by 1927)
Seized by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in July 1940 (inv. no. D.-W. 138) and transferred to the depot maintained at the Jeu de Paume in November 1940
Munich Central Collecting Point (June 1945 - July 1946)
Repatriated to the French State on 11th July 1946
Restituted to David David-Weill by circa 1947
Paul Rosenberg & Co, New York (acquired by 1974 and until at least 1982)
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Acquired from the above in 1984
Les Arts, 1914, illustrated p. 22
Gabriel Henriot, Collection David Weill, Paris, 1927, vol. II, illustrated p. 227 (titled Portrait de jeune femme and as dating from circa 1862)
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, no. 185, illustrated p. 95
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 241, illustrated p. 96