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Edgar Degas

Femme s'essuyant

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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