拍品 170
  • 170

EDGAR DEGAS | Danseuse se frottant le genou

估價
80,000 - 120,000 USD
招標截止

描述

  • 埃德加·德加
  • Danseuse se frottant le genou
  • Stamped Degas and with the foundry mark Cire Perdue A.A. Hébrard and numbered 39/J 
  • Bronze
  • Height: 12 1/4 in.
  • 31.1 cm
  • Conceived circa 1882-95 and cast in bronze after 1919 in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts reserved for the Degas heirs marked HER.D and HER by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris.

來源

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired by 1960)
Mr. & Mrs. Lester Avnet, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 13, 1965, lot 43)
Stephen Hahn Fine Art, New York (acquired at the above sale) 
Acquired from the above on July 31, 1981

出版

John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, London, 1944, no. XLVIII, illustrations of another cast pp. 106-107
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, London, 1957, no. XLVIII, illustration of another cast pl. 62
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, illustration of another cast pl. 76 
John Rewald, The Complete Sculptures of Degas, London, 1976, no. 27, illustration of another cast p. 46
Maurice Guillaud, Degas, Form and Space, Paris, 1984, no. 36, illustration of another cast fig. 161
Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 39, illustrations of another cast pp. 196-97
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelly Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Nineteenth-Century Art, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, illustrations of another cast pp. 305-08

Condition

The work is in very good condition. Honey brown patina. There is some rubbing to the figure's proper left thumb. There is some scattered light pitting on the surface, likely inherent to the casting process. There are a few light scratches on the base to the left of the signature.
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