Femme de dos s'essuyant les cheveux
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Femme de dos s'essuyant les cheveux
stamped with signature bottom left 'Degas' (Lugt 658)
pastel on joined tracing paper laid down on board
22½ x 26 3/8 in. (57 x 67 cm.)
Drawn in 1905-1910
Femme de dos s'essuyant les cheveux
stamped with signature bottom left 'Degas' (Lugt 658)
pastel on joined tracing paper laid down on board
22½ x 26 3/8 in. (57 x 67 cm.)
Drawn in 1905-1910
Provenance
Atelier Degas; second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Dec. 11-13, 1918, lot 75 (illustrated, p. 43)
Jos. Hessel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Collection Wormser, Paris (circa 1920)
By descent to the present owner
Jos. Hessel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Collection Wormser, Paris (circa 1920)
By descent to the present owner
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 678, no. 1168 (illustrated, p. 679)
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Schmit, May-June, 1975, no. 35
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Degas, June-Nov., 1993, p. 131, no. 77 (illustrated in color)
London, National Gallery, Degas: Beyond Impressionism, May-Aug., 1996, p. 301, no. 56 (illustrated in color, p. 241). The exhibition traveled to Chicago, The Art Institute, Sept., 1996-Jan., 1997.
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Degas, June-Nov., 1993, p. 131, no. 77 (illustrated in color)
London, National Gallery, Degas: Beyond Impressionism, May-Aug., 1996, p. 301, no. 56 (illustrated in color, p. 241). The exhibition traveled to Chicago, The Art Institute, Sept., 1996-Jan., 1997.