
Property from a Private Collection, Chicago
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
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