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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Jockeys (trois études)

with the stamped signature lower right Degas (L. 635), soft blue and black crayon on paper
9¼ x 12in. (23.5 x 30.5cm.)

Executed circa 1883-85
Provenance
The Artist's Studio, Third Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7-9 April 1919, lot 104 (2) (illustrated)
Marcel Guérin, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, 12 Dec. 1936, lot 1
Durand-Ruel, Paris
Baron Louis de Chollet, Paris
Literature
G. Adriani, Degas: Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings, London, 1985 (illustrated pl. 147)
San Francisco, 1989, no. 104/2, p. 84 (illustrated) - ?
T. Reff, "An Exhibition of Drawings by Degas" in Art Quarterly, New York, vol. XXX, 1967, pp. 256 and 263
Exhibited
Berne, Kunstmuseum, Degas, 1951-2, no. 125
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Edgar Degas, 1952, no. 65
Paris, Durand-Ruel, Edgar Degas, 1960, no. 6
St. Louis, City Art Museum, Drawings by Degas, Jan.-June 1967, no. 103; this exhibition also travelled to The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mar.-Apr. 1967; and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mar.-Jun. 1967
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Degas' Racing World, 1968, no. 53
Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Edgar Degas, Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, Jan.-Mar. 1984, no. 147; this exhibition also travelled to the Berlin Nationalgalerie, Apr.-May 1984

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