
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Femme s'essuyant
This lot has been withdrawn
Lot Details
Description
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Femme s'essuyant
signed Degas (lower right)
pastel on joined paper laid down on board
103 by 83 cm. 40½ by 32⅝ in.
Executed circa 1905-07.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist by 1914)
(possibly) Galerie Bernheim Jeune et Cie., Paris
Roland Leten, Ghent (acquired by 1952)
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired from the above in February 1964)
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York (transferred from the above)
Edgar M. Bronfman, New York (acquired from the above in June 1965)
Acquired from the estate of the above by the present owner in 2014
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Edgar Degas, 1952, no. 57 (with incorrect measurements)
Kursaal Ostende, La Femme dans l’Art, 1952, no. 7, pl. III, illustrated
Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Schilderijen uit Gentse verzamelingen, 1953, no. 55, pl. XXV, illustrated
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Summer Exhibition, 1964
Ambroise Vollard, Degas: Quatre-vingt-dix-huit reproductions signées par Degas, Paris, 1914, pl. XXII, illustrated
Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1457, p. 829, illustrated (with incorrect measurements)
Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, New York, 1988, p. 262, illustrated