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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Edgar Degas

Loge d’actrices

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Loge d’actrices

signed Degas (upper right)

pastel over etching on paper

17.8 by 24.1 cm. 7 by 9½ in. 

Executed circa 1885.

James Inglis, New York

American Art Galleries, New York, 11-12 March 1909, lot 18 (consigned by the above)

Hugo Reisinger, New York

American Art Galleries, New York, 18-20 January 1916, lot 44 (consigned by the above)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above sale)

Irene Mayer Selznick, New York

Christie’s, New York, 30 April 1996, lot 34 

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, 1984-85, no. 50 Va, pp. 161 and 167, illustrated in colour (titled Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms and with incorrect dimensions)

Paris, Galerie du Carrousel, Degas, 1991, no. 19, illustrated in colour (with incorrect dimensions)

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2014-16 (extended loan)

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2020-26 (extended loan)

Phillippe Brame and Theodore Reff, Degas et son œuvre, a Supplement, New York, 1984, no. 97, pp. 106-107, illustrated (with incorrect dimensions)

Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, London, 1988, p. 67, illustrated in colour (dated 1879-95)