A Modern Eye: Works from a Private New York Collection

Edgar Degas

Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit, quatrième étude

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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

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350,000 - 550,000 USD

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A Modern Eye: Works from a Private New York Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit, quatrième étude

stamped with artist's signature and numbered 40/L; stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue

bronze

height: 18 in.

45.7 cm.


Conceived in wax circa 1882-1900; this example executed in an edition numbered A to T, plus 2 casts marked HER and HER.D.

Catherine J. Tudor-Hart, London (acquired in the 1960s)
Sotheby's London, 26 March 1973, lot 10 (consigned by the above)
Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above on 30 January 1974 by the present owner
Marguerite Rebatet, Degas, Paris, 1944, pl. 128, illustration of another cast (titled Nu)
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XLV, pp. 25 & 100-02, illustrations of the plaster and another cast
Pierre Borel, Les Sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949, n.p., illustration of the plasters
Jeanna Fevre, Mon Oncle Degas, Geneva, 1949, n.p., illustration of the plaster
John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1956, no. XLV, p. 152, pl. 57 & 61, illustrations of another cast
Pierre Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Paris, 1957, p. 61, illustration of another cast
Claus Virch, The Adele and Arthur Lehman Collection, New York, 1965, p. 110-11, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S32, p. 142, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pp. 18-19, pls. 99 & 125, illustration of another cast
Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas: Life and Work, New York, 1986, no. 182, pp. 9 & 195, illustration of another cast (dated 1880)
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLV, pp. 128-29 & 198, illustrations of the plaster and another cast
Anne Pigeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 35, pls. 138-39, pp. 169-70, illustrations of another cast
Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 40, p. 30, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 40, pp. 198-99, illustrations of other casts
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 74, pp. 382-83, illustrations of another cast