Modiste garnissant un chapeau

Details

EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Modiste garnissant un chapeau
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
pastel and charcoal on toned paper laid down on paper
17 1⁄8 x 10 ½ in. (43.5 x 26.8 cm.)
Drawn circa 1898

Provenance

The artist's studio; third sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 7-9 April 1919, lot 52.
Nunès et Fiquet, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Roger Sauerbach, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1931, lot 4.
Hugo Perls, Berlin and Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Louis E. Stern, New York; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 30-31 March 1949, lot 166.
Edward A. Bragaline, New York (acquired at the above sale); Estate sale, Christie's, London, 9 December 1999, lot 511.
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, January 2001.

Literature

P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 768, no. 1319 (illustrated, p. 769).

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Twentieth Century Masters from the Bragaline Collection for the Benefit of the Museum of Early American Folk Arts, November 1963, no. 16 (illustrated).
Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, Art from Southampton Collections, August-September 1973, no. 37.

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Lot Essay

Edgar Degas exhibited his first pictures of milliner's shops in 1882, and in these works he captured the clear differences between the store's bourgeois clients and the lower class shop girls. In the later Modiste series, he concentrates on the hat makers themselves, showing them singly or working together in pairs. As he had he done in his ongoing series of dancers, and in the powerful series of laundresses and women ironing, Degas favored a behind-the-scenes look at women at work, showing his sympathy for their poorly-compensated and difficult working conditions.

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