Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Property from an Important Private Collection, USA
Trois danseuses
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Trois danseuses
stamped Degas (lower left)
pastel on joined paper mounted on board
65.2 by 52.5 cm. 25 ⅝ by 20 ⅝ in.
Executed circa 1904-06.
Estate of the artist
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 1ère Vente, 6-8 May 1918, lot 137
Jacques Seligmann, Paris (acquired from the above sale)
American Art Association, New York, 27 January 1921, lot 16 (consigned by the above)
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (transferred from the above in 1924)
Hugo Perls, Berlin (acquired from the above on 26 April 1928)
Oscar Homolka, New York
Sotheby’s, London, 24 May 1965, lot A (consigned by the above)
Mr and Mrs Leonard Rosen, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Knud Abilgaard, Denmark
Jesper Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen
Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1987, lot 19 (consigned by the above)
Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1989, lot 36
José Mugrabi, Paris (acquired from the above sale and until at least 1993)
Private Collection, London
Martin Lawrence Galleries
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 25 February 2000
Henri Hertz, L'Amour de l'Art, March 1924, p. 69, illustrated
Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946-49 (1984 reprint), no. 1448, pp. 822-823, illustrated
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Degas, 1993, no. 66, p. 112, illustrated