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Property from a Private Dutch Collection

Edgar Degas

Chanteuse de café-concert

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Dutch Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917

Chanteuse de café-concert 


signed degas (upper left)

pastel and gouache over monotype on paper

Image: 15.8 by 21cm., 6¼ by 8¼in.

Sheet: 23 by 28.5cm., 9 by 11¼in.

Framed: 41 by 47cm., 16⅛ by 18½in.

Executed circa 1875-76. 

Robert Kelso Cassatt, Philadelphia
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired in 1942)
Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired in 1944)
Mr & Mrs Arthur Sachs, Santa Barbara, California (acquired by 1949)
Mme. Marian François-Poncet (née Sachs), Paris (by descent from the above. Sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, 7th November 2012, lot 390)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner 
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 19th Century French Drawings, 1947, n.n. 
New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Degas, 1949, no. 45 (titled Woman in a Loge)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Degas Monotypes, 1968, no. 9, illustrated in the catalogue (with incomplete medium and as dating from circa 1877-78)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Degas: A Strange New Beauty, 2016, no. 28, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incomplete medium)
Laren, The Netherlands, Museum Singer Laren, Impressionism & Beyond. A Wonderful Journey, 2018, n.n., illustrated in colour in the catalogue (with incomplete medium)
Philippe Brame & Theodore Reff, Degas et son œuvre: A Supplement to Paul-André Lemoisne's Degas et son œuvre, New York & London, 1984, no. 69, illustrated p. 75