Femme assise, s'essuyant le côté gauche
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Femme assise, s'essuyant le côté gauche
stamped with signature, foundry mark and numbered on the top of the base 'Degas [Lugt 658] A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE 46/I'
bronze with brown patina
Height: 13¾in. (35cm.)
Original wax version executed 1896-1911; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of 22, with 20 casts lettered A through T plus one cast marked HER.D for the Degas heirs and one unnumbered cast for the founder Hébrard
Femme assise, s'essuyant le côté gauche
stamped with signature, foundry mark and numbered on the top of the base 'Degas [Lugt 658] A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE 46/I'
bronze with brown patina
Height: 13¾in. (35cm.)
Original wax version executed 1896-1911; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of 22, with 20 casts lettered A through T plus one cast marked HER.D for the Degas heirs and one unnumbered cast for the founder Hébrard
Provenance
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, June 28, 1982, lot 5A
Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)
Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired at the above sale)
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, London, 1944, no. LXIX (wax version illustrated, pl. 134; another cast illustrated, pl. 135)
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S67 (another cast illustrated, p. 145)
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pl. 133 (another cast illustrated)
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXIX (another cast illustrated, pp. 176-177; another cast illustrated in color, p. 200)
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes", Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, Aug., 1995, no. 46 (another cast illustrated, fig. 44, p. 33)
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S67 (another cast illustrated, p. 145)
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, pl. 133 (another cast illustrated)
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXIX (another cast illustrated, pp. 176-177; another cast illustrated in color, p. 200)
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes", Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, Aug., 1995, no. 46 (another cast illustrated, fig. 44, p. 33)