EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Details
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Danseuse rajustant son chausson

signed bottom right Degas--pastel and charcoal on tan paper laid down on paper
20¼ x 25½ in. (51.5 x 65 cm.)

Drawn circa 1890
Provenance
Georges Bernheim, Paris
Anon.; sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, Dec.5, 1924, lot 74 (illustrated, p. 51)
Esther Slater Kerrigan, New York; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Jan. 9, 1942, lot 269
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired at the above sale)
Dr. Hans Ritz, Montclair, N.J. (March, 1942)
Anon. sale; Sotheby & Co., London, Dec. 3, 1975, lot 4
The British Rail Pension Fund Works of Art Collection, London
Literature
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 618, no. 1069, (illustrated, p.619)
J. Lassaigne, F. Minervino and F. Russoli, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 134, no. 1065 (illustrated)
Exhibited
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Exposition Degas, Sept. - Nov.,
1976, no. 47. The exhibition traveled to Kyoto, Musée de la Ville, Nov. - Dec., 1976 and Fukuoka Centre Culturel, Dec., 1976 - Jan., 1977.
Edinbourg, National Gallery of Scotland, Degas, Aug.-Sept., 1979, pl. 34 (illustrated)
Tubingen, Kunsthalle, Edgar Degas 1834-1984, Pastelle, Olskizzen,
Zeichnungen
, Jan.-March, 1984, no. 110, p. 364 (illustrated)
The exhibition traveled to Berlin, Nationalgalerie, April-May, 1984.
Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, The Private Degas, Jan.-Feb., 1987, no. 76, p. 105 and 141 (illustrated, pl. 136). The exhibition traveled to Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, March-May, 1987.