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Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Edgar Degas

Femme à sa toilette

Auction Closed

May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Femme à sa toilette

signed Degas (lower right)

pastel and black chalk on paper mounted on board

17 by 18 ⅝ in.

43.2 by 47.3 cm.

Executed circa 1884.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Baudin, Paris

[with] Durand-Ruel, Paris (consigned by the above on 19 November 1906 and returned on 12 November 1907)

Alphonse Kann, Paris

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above on 28 October 1908)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the above on 28 November 1908)

Helen McMahon (Mrs. Charles Suydam Cutting), New York (acquired by 1949)

Private Collection

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1963)

Galerie René Drouet, Paris (acquired from the above in December 1964)

Private Collection

Alex Reid and Lefevre Ltd. (The Lefevre Gallery), London (acquired from the above on 3 December 1964)

Stephan Hahn, New York (acquired from the above on 24 April 1967)

Palais Galliera, Paris, 2 December 1973, lot 3

Christie’s, New York, 15 May 1997, lot 238

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan Exhibition of Degas for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, 1949, no. 70 (titled Woman Drying her Arm)

London, Alex Reid and Lefevre Ltd. (The Lefevre Gallery), 19th and 20th Century French Paintings, 1965, no. 5, illustrated

Tokyo, Nihon Bijutsu Koryu Kyokai, Watercolors, 1977

Ambroise Vollard, Degas: Quatre-vingt-dix-huit reproductions signées par Degas (Peintures, pastels, dessins et estampes), Paris, 1914, n.p., pl. LVI, illustrated

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 795, p. 452, illustrated; p. 453