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Property from an American Private Collection

Edgar Degas

Deux danseuses

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Deux danseuses

stamped Degas (lower left)

pastel on tracing paper mounted on card

79.4 by 44.8 cm. 31¼ by 17⅝ in.

Executed circa 1891.

Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 1ère Vente, 6-8 May 1918, lot 138 (consigned by the above)

Rusen Collection, Paris

Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm (acquired by 1920)

Stina Eriksson, Uppsala (acquired by 1954)

Christie’s, New York, 6 November 1979, lot 22

Galerie Koller, Zurich

Private Collection

Margaret Lipworth Fine Art, Boca Raton

Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum; Oslo, Nationalgalleriets Kvadratsal and Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Degas-utställning (Stockholm and Oslo) and Degas-udstilling: Foreningen Fransk Kunst (Copenhagen), 1920, no. 40, p. 19

Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Cézanne till Picasso: Fransk konst i svensk ägo, 1954, no. 88, p. 72 (titled Danseuses)

Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Jubileumsutställningen 40 år, 1958, no. 54, p. 50, illustrated (titled Danseuses)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1102, p. 637, illustrated

Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, London and Boston, 1949, no. 205, n.p., illustrated and p. 402 (titled Deux danseuses sur une banquette and dated circa 1890-1900)

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, New York and London, 1984, no. 1102, p. 637, illustrated