EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

The Customer, Supper Time (L'Amateur, le souper) (A. and C. 115; J. 115)

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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
The Customer, Supper Time (L'Amateur, le souper) (A. and C. 115; J. 115)
monotype in black ink, circa 1879, on Chine laid on wove paper to another sheet of wove, with the 'Atelier Ed. Degas' red inkstamp (Lugt 657) on the reverse, with narrow margins, minor surface soiling, otherwise in good condition, framed
S. 8¼ x 6¼ in. (210 x 160 mm.)

Provenance

The Estate of the artist 'Vente d'estampes' no. 221 (one of 16 monotypes in the lot).
Gustave Pellet.
Maurice Exteens.
Paul Brame.
Lefevre Gallery, London (by 1958). Mr. and Mrs. Everett McNear, Chicago.
Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago.
Acquired from teh above by the present owner, 1980.

Exhibited

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1948, no. 81.
Lefevre Gallery, London, 1958, no. 22.
Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago, supplement no. 14.
Ordrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Degas Intime, October-December 1994, no. 48.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection, November 2003-January 2004, p. 6, no. 4 (illustrated in color).
The Art Institute of Chicago and The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, March-June 2005, no. 230.

Lot Essay

Depicting the later stages of a supper party in a private room of a restaurant, this monotype typifies the bawdy humor of so many of Degas' monotypes relating to the demi-monde. The customer, seen from behind, is entertaining three ladies. An arm encircles the waist of one while the other sneaks toward the ample woman to his left. A third woman stands on the table with her skirt pulled up to reveal her charms.

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