Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant

細節

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant
signed 'Degas' and numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '3/HER.D CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD' (on the base).
bronze with brown patina
10½in. (26.6cm.) high (including the base)
Conceived in wax between 1890 and 1895 and cast in an edition of twenty-two between circa 1919 and 1921, numbered from A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard, marked HER and HER.D respectively.

來源

Walter J. Reinemann, New York.
Bequeathed by the above to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970.
Jeffrey Loria, New York.
Acquired from the above by the Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 14 May 1980, lot 202 ($45,000).

出版

J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, London, 1944, no. XLII (another cast illustrated p. 97).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S4 (another cast illustrated p. 140).
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 46 (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas: The Sculptures, a Catalogue Raisonné', Apollo, August 1995, no. 3 (another cast illustrated p. 12).

拍品專文

On his death in 1917, approximately 150 wax sculptures were found in Degas' studio. His heirs drew up a contract with the Hébrard foundry in Paris authorizing seventy-four of the figures to be cast in bronze, each in an edition of twenty-two. One complete set was reserved for the artist's heirs, marked HER, another for the founder, marked HER.D, and the remaining sets were numbered from A to T.

The present work bears the inscription '3/HER.D', meaning that it was originally reserved for the founders. The number three refers to the subject's number in the inventory made of the wax models. Other casts of Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant are housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (A), the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard (B) and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (P).