Edgar Degas

Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 2ème Vente, 13 December 1918, lot 157 (consigned by the above)

Jos Hessel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Alfred Sussmann, Paris

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 18 May 1922, lot 58 (consigned by the above)

Georges Bernheim, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Stanley N. Barbee, Beverley Hills (acquired before 1944)

Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 May 1945, lot 48 (consigned by the above) 

M. Knoedler & Co, New York (acquired jointly with Sam Salz, New York at the above sale)

Katherine Ordway, St. Paul (acquired from the above in June 1945)

Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul (acquired as a gift from the above in 1954)

Sotheby’s, New York, 11 November 1987, lot 31 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Private Collection, New York

Thomas Gibson Fine Art, Ltd., London

Acquired from the above in July 2009 by the present owner

Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul Gallery and School of Art, Acquisitions 1944-1958, 1959

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Aquarelle, Gouachen, Zeichnungen, 1988, no. 25, n.p., illustrated in color

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, L’Éternel féminin, 1989-90, no. 13, n.p., illustrated in color

London, David Bathurst Ltd., Paintings, Pastels and Drawings by Edgar Degas, 1991, no. 19, n.p., illustrated in color

Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Degas: The Late Work, 2012-13, p. 123, illustrated in color; p. 258 

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, 1946, Paris, no. 1166, p. 678; p. 679, illustrated

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera Completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 1022, p. 132, illustrated (titled Donna che si asciuga la nuca, di schiena)

Mary Abbe Martin, “St. Paul Museum Sells Drawing for $1.2 Million,” Star Tribune, 17 November 1987, p. 1B illustrated; p. 4B