EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Danseuse saluant

Details
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Danseuse saluant
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 9/C AA HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with golden brown patina
Height: 8 ½ in. (21.8 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively
Provenance
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
John Dorrance, New York (acquired from the above, November 1971).
Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, Newport (gift from the above); Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 18 October 1977, lot 20.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 90, no. XXXIII (another cast illustrated, pl. 84).
J. Rewald and L. von Matt, Degas, Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, p. 148, no. XXXIII (another cast illustrated, p. 149, fig. 12 and pl. 39).
F. Russoli and F. Minervo, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 141, no. S25 (another cast illustrated, p. 142).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. XIII, no. 48 (original wax version illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 201, no. XXXIII (another cast illustrated, p. 104; original wax version illustrated, p. 105).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 165, no. 26 (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated again, pls. 58-59).
S. Campbell, "Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, August 1995, p. 15, no. 9 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, p. 139, no. 9 (original wax version illustrated; another cast illustrated in color, p. 138).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D. Barbour and S. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, p. 509, no. 54 (another cast illustrated in color, pp. 310-311, original wax version illustrated in color, p. 309).
S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 174-177, no. 24 (original wax model illustrated in color, pp. 175-176, fig. 2)

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