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Danseuse mettant son bas
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse mettant son bas
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '52/E Cire Perdue A.A.Hébrard' (on the left foot)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 18½ in. (47 cm.)
Original wax version executed in 1896-1911; this bronze version cast between 1919-1937 and later in an edition of 22 numbered from A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Danseuse mettant son bas
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '52/E Cire Perdue A.A.Hébrard' (on the left foot)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 18½ in. (47 cm.)
Original wax version executed in 1896-1911; this bronze version cast between 1919-1937 and later in an edition of 22 numbered from A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 3 December 1975, lot 24.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Georges V, Paris, 17 June 1976, lot 51.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Georges V, Paris, 17 June 1976, lot 51.
Literature
Exh. cat., Exposition des sculptures de Degas, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris, May - June 1921, no. 52.
A. Pingeot & F. Horvat, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 12.
J. Rewald & L. von Matt, Degas: Sculptures - The Complete Works, New York, 1956. no. 57.
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné', Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 52 (another cast illustrated p. 36).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the bronzes, Milan, 2002, no. 52 (another cast illustrated p. 222).
A. Pingeot & F. Horvat, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 12.
J. Rewald & L. von Matt, Degas: Sculptures - The Complete Works, New York, 1956. no. 57.
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné', Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 52 (another cast illustrated p. 36).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the bronzes, Milan, 2002, no. 52 (another cast illustrated p. 222).
Special notice
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