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Femme se lavant la jambe gauche
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Femme se lavant la jambe gauche
stamped with signature 'Degas' (on the front), and stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE 61/J' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1896-1911; this bronze version cast in 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Femme se lavant la jambe gauche
stamped with signature 'Degas' (on the front), and stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE 61/J' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1896-1911; this bronze version cast in 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (1956).
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1994, lot 142.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1994, lot 142.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 27, no. XLVIII (another cast illustrated, pp. 132-133). J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Toute l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 144, no. S64 (another cast illustrated, p. 145).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 131 (another cast illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 175, no. LXVIII (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalague raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, p. 41, no. 61 (another cast illustrated).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 131 (another cast illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 175, no. LXVIII (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalague raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, p. 41, no. 61 (another cast illustrated).
Sale room notice
The correct measurements are: Height: 7¾ in. (19.8 cm.).