Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Cheval à l'Abreuvoir

signed on the front of the base Degas, numbered on the back of the base 3/Her B, with the foundry stamp AA Hébrard cire perdue, bronze with black/brown patina
6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high

Conceived circa 1866-68 and cast between 1919 and 1925 in an edition of 22, numbered from A-T plus two casts reserved for Degas' heirs

出版

J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, the Complete Works, London, 1957, no. II p. 141 (another cast illustrated pl. 2)
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton 1976, no. 9 (another cast illustrated)
A. Pingeot & F. Horvat, Degas Sculpture, Paris, 1991, p. 173, no. 42 (another cast illustrated pls. 100 and 101)

拍品專文

H. Loyrette dates this sculpture circa 1867-68 (exh. cat., Degas, Paris, 1988 p. 137). It is certainly one of the first horses sculpted by Degas and according to John Rewald he made it in order to work out the correct position for the horse in the painting Mademoiselle Fiocre dans le Basset 'La Source' (now in the Brooklyn Museum; Lemoisne no. 146). "Degas faced the problem of having to introduce into his composition a horse not as he might have imagined it for the occasion, but as it actually appeared in the scene he was picturing. Desiring to make a realistic work, and doubtless inspired by the example of his friend Cuvelier, Degas had the idea to model a horse in the same attitude he had observed in the ballet. By placing the horse in wax in the desired angle, he could later make use of it as a model for his painting...." (J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture - the Complete Works, London, 1957, p. 15)