A Sculptor’s Eye: Property from Anthony Caro's Personal Collection
Edgar Degas
Portrait, tête appuyée sur la main
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A Sculptor’s Eye: Property from Anthony Caro's Personal Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Portrait, tête appuyée sur la main
inscribed Degas, stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A.HEBRARD and numbered 62/B (on the shoulder)
bronze
length: 17 cm. 6 ¾ in
Conceived in wax circa 1882-95 and cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris from 1919; this example cast by 1921.
Walther Halvorsen, Paris (acquired by 1921)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired by 1922)
Ferargil Galleries, New York (acquired by 1925)
Edith Martell, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 1975, lot 237 (consigned by the above)
Browse & Darby, London (acquired by 1989)
Private Collection, Scotland
Anthony Caro, United Kingdom
Thence by descent to the present owner
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 121, n.p., another cast illustrated
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXIX, p. 96, another cast illustrated (titled Tête appuyée sur une main, buste)
Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné", Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 62, p. 41, fig. 60, another cast illustrated
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 62, pp. 242-53, another cast illustrated
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 100, pp. 481-84, another cast illustrated