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Préparation à la Danse, le pied droit en avant
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Préparation à la Danse, le pied droit en avant
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 57/M A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base; Lugt 658)
bronze with brown patina
22½ in. (57.1 cm.)
Original wax model executed 1882-1895; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Préparation à la Danse, le pied droit en avant
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 57/M A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base; Lugt 658)
bronze with brown patina
22½ in. (57.1 cm.)
Original wax model executed 1882-1895; this bronze version cast 1919-1921 in an edition of twenty-two, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Provenance
Blumenthal, 1 October 1926.
Literature
G. Janneau, "Les Sculptures de Degas", La Renaissance de l'Art français, Paris, July, 1921, p. 353 (another cast illustrated).
P. Vitry, Catalogue des sculptures du moyen-age, de la renaissance et des temps modernes, Paris, 1933, no. 1753 (another cast illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, pp. 25 and 103, no. XLVI (another cast illustrated, pp. 130-131).
P. Borel, Les Sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculptures, London, 1957, p. 151 (another cast illustrated, pl. 34).
F. Russoli, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S36 (another cast illustrated, p. 142).
C. Millard, The Sculpture of Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 51 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné,
San Francisco, 1990, no. XLVI (another cast illustrated, p. 130).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991 (another cast illustrated, pp. 44-45).
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes," Apollo, vol. CXLII (no. 42), August 1995, pp. 38-39, no. 57 (another cast illustrated).
P. Vitry, Catalogue des sculptures du moyen-age, de la renaissance et des temps modernes, Paris, 1933, no. 1753 (another cast illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, pp. 25 and 103, no. XLVI (another cast illustrated, pp. 130-131).
P. Borel, Les Sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculptures, London, 1957, p. 151 (another cast illustrated, pl. 34).
F. Russoli, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S36 (another cast illustrated, p. 142).
C. Millard, The Sculpture of Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 51 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné,
San Francisco, 1990, no. XLVI (another cast illustrated, p. 130).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991 (another cast illustrated, pp. 44-45).
S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes," Apollo, vol. CXLII (no. 42), August 1995, pp. 38-39, no. 57 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
Pau, France, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Edgar Degas Sculptures, summer 1988, no. 8 (illustrated).