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Property from a Private Collection, Chicago

Edgar Degas

Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche, première étude

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

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Property from a Private Collection, Chicago

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sur la jambe gauche, première étude

stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 6/J

bronze

height: 16 ¼ in. 41.3 cm.

Conceived in wax circa 1885-90; this example cast in bronze from 1919.

(possibly) The Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired by 1950)

O’Hana Gallery, London (acquired by 1970)

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Jensen Fine Arts, Brookline, Massachusetts

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner

(possibly) London, The Lefevre Gallery, Degas, 1950, no. 32, n.p.

London, O’Hana Gallery, French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Summer Exhibition, 1970, no. 21, p. 48

John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. LV, pp. 26 and 120, illustration of another cast

John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L’Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. LV, pp. 41-42, illustration of another cast; p. 156

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S9, pp. 140-41, illustration of the wax

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 106

John Rewald, Degas’s Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LV, pp. 148-49, illustration of another cast

Anne Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 9, pp. 54-55 and 156-57, illustrations of other casts

Sara Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 6, p. 14, fig. 6, illustration of another cast

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 6, pp. 132-33, illustration in color of another cast

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall and Daphne Barbour, et al., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, no. 63, p. 341, illustration in color of another cast (in two details), p. 342, illustration in color of another cast; p. 343, illustration in color of another cast (in two details); p. 507