Danseuse à la barre

Details

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse à la barre
signed top right 'Degas'
charcoal heightened with pastel on paper
41½ x 29½in. (104.1 x 75cm.)
Drawn 1884-1888

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris M. Jonas, Paris Galerie M. Rousso, Paris (acquired by the present owners, 1964)

Literature

P. Jamot, "Degas," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1918, p. 144 (illustrated)
P. Jamot, Degas, Paris, 1924, pl. 73 (illustrated)
P.-A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. III, no. 812 (illustrated, p. 463)

Exhibited

St. Louis, City Art Museum, Drawings by Degas, Jan.-Feb., 1967, no. 145 (illustrated, p. 218)
Dallas, Museum of Art, on extended loan (1989-1997)

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Lot Essay

This pastel is one of a group of studies for the painting Danseuses à la barre, executed 1884-1888 (Lemoisne, no. 807; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.). Here the model has posed nude for the figure of the dancer who appears in ballet costume in the foreground of the painting.