EDGAR DEGAS

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EDGAR DEGAS

Cheval au trot, les pieds ne touchant pas le sol

signed, numbered and stamped on the top of the base Degas 49/J A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE--bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.)

Original dark red wax version executed circa 1865-1881; cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two consisting of twenty marked A-T and two artist's proofs
Literature
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 144, no. S 51 (another cast illustrated, p. 143)
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 23, fig. 62 (another cast illustrated, fig. 62)
J. Rewald, Studies in Post-Impressionism, New York, 1986, p. 125 (another cast illustrated)
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 64, no. XI (another cast illustrated)