Property from the Collection of Goddard and Brigitta Lieberson Brigitta Lieberson, the renowned ballerina, was born in 1917 in Berlin as Eva Brigitta Hartwig. In 1930, she made her stage debut in the role of the First Fairy in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She appeared in another Reinhardt production the following year, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman, before moving to Paris and then to London studying successively under the tutelage of Nicholas Leget and Marie Rambert. Her career swiftly progressed and in 1934 she was invited to join Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo. As a member of the ballet troupe she was required to choose a Russian stage name and selected Vera Zorina. Throughout her career, Vera Zorina worked with the most famous ballet dancers and choreographers of her time including Anton Dolin, Lionid Massine and George Balanchine, whom she married in 1938. She also became a great success in America appearing both on stage and in numerous films including Samuel Goldwyn's The Goldwyn Follies, which featured the famous Undine "waterlotus" ballet choreographed by Balanchine. In 1946 Zorina married Goddard Lieberson who later became president of Columbia Records, a subsidiary of CBS. Zorina's involvement in the arts continued throughout her life. As her career as a dancer came to a close she turned to music and directed operas for the Santa Fe Opera, The New York City Opera and The Norwegian Opera companies. Christie's is pleased to offer the following lots on behalf of The Collection of Goddard and Brigitta Lieberson: Edgar Degas' Danseuse au tambourin (lot 207), Salvador Dalí's Le triomphe de Nautilus (lot 323) and Paul Klee's Ein Büsser (lot 114).

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Danseuse au tambourin

细节

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse au tambourin
signed, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 12/D A.A.HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1882-1895; this bronze version cast by 1929

来源

Halvorsen, London.
Justin K. Thannhäuser, Paris (1929-1938).

出版

J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 90, no. XXXIV (other casts illustrated, pl. 85).
F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 141, no. S20 (another cast illustrated; with incorrect dimensions).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 106-107, no. XXXIV (wax version and another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, pp. 16-17, no. 12 (another cast illustrated, p. 16).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 144-145, no. 12 (other casts illustrated in color).

展览

Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Degas, Portraitiste, Sculpteur, July-October 1931, p. 134, no. 20.
Buenos Aires, Galeria Müller, Degas Exposicion, September 1934, no. 61.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Rondom Rodin, Tentoonstelling Honderd Jaar Fransche Sculptuur, June-September 1939, p. 39, no. 93.