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Property from a Private Collection

Edgar Degas

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

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

550,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Danseuse, position de quatrième devant sure la jambe gauche, troisième étude

stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 58/O (on the base)

bronze 

height: 23 ¼ in. 59 cm. 

Conceived in wax circa 1882-85; this example cast in bronze by A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris, from 1919.

Marlborough Gallery Ltd., London

Richard and Dorothy Rodgers, New York (acquired from the above in November 1951)

Christie's, New York, 11 November 1992, lot 4 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1941, p. 131, illustration of another cast 

John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XLIII, p. 98, illustration of another cast 

Leonard Von Matt and John Rewald, Degas: Sculpture, Zurich, 1956, no. XLIII, pp. 32 and 43-44, illustration of another cast 

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervo, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S911, p. 141, illustration of another cast  

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pp. 24 and 106, pl. 89, illustration of another cast 

Exh. Cat. New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters: The John C. Whitehead Collection, 1987, p. 49, illustration of another cast

John Rewald, Degas’s Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLIII, pp. 124-25, illustrations of the wax version and another cast 

Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 10, p. 157, illustration of another cast 

Sara Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, 1995, p. 39, illustration of another cast  

Exh. Cat. New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, From Daumier to Matisse: Selections from the John C. Whitehead Collection, 2002, p. 6, illustration of another cast  

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 58, pp. 234-35, illustrations of another cast

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 64, pp. 344-47, illustrations of another cast

Susan Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Edgar Degas Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 2010, no. 28, pp. 191-93, illustrations of the wax version and another cast 

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, The Music Makers, 1959, no. 5, p. 6