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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF LUCILLE ELLIS SIMON
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Cheval faisant une 'descente de main'
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Cheval faisant une 'descente de main'
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 22/H A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base; Lugt 658)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 73/8 in. (18.8 cm.)
Original wax model executed 1882-1895; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Cheval faisant une 'descente de main'
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 22/H A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base; Lugt 658)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 73/8 in. (18.8 cm.)
Original wax model executed 1882-1895; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Provenance
Vautheret, Lyon (30 June 1922).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 1964).
Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles (1970).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired from the above, 1964).
Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles (1970).
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 20, no. XII (another cast illustrated, pp. 46-47).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 63 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 66-67, no. XII (original wax model and another cast illustrated).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculpture, Paris, 1991, p. 175, no. 46 (another cast illustrated, pls. 90-91).
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes," Apollo, vol. CXLII (no. 42), August 1995, p. 21-22, no. 22 (another cast illustrated, p. 21).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 63 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 66-67, no. XII (original wax model and another cast illustrated).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculpture, Paris, 1991, p. 175, no. 46 (another cast illustrated, pls. 90-91).
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes," Apollo, vol. CXLII (no. 42), August 1995, p. 21-22, no. 22 (another cast illustrated, p. 21).