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EDGAR DEGAS
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EDGAR DEGAS
Femme assise dans un fauteuil, s'essuyant la nuque
stamped with signature on the right side Degas--stamped and numbered on the left side A A HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE 44/G--bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 12½ in. (31.5 cm.)
Original green wax and plastilene version executed 1896-1911; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two consisting of twenty marked A-T and two artist's proofs
Femme assise dans un fauteuil, s'essuyant la nuque
stamped with signature on the right side Degas--stamped and numbered on the left side A A HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE 44/G--bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 12½ in. (31.5 cm.)
Original green wax and plastilene version executed 1896-1911; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two consisting of twenty marked A-T and two artist's proofs
Provenance
Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired by the present owner Jan. 2, 1965)
Literature
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 144, no. S 58 (another cast illustrated)
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 109 (another cast illustrated, fig. 141)
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 178-179, no. 70 (another cast illustrated)
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 109 (another cast illustrated, fig. 141)
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 178-179, no. 70 (another cast illustrated)