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Deux femmes nues, les bras levés
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                                            EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Deux femmes nues, les bras levés
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
charcoal counterproof on paper
25 1⁄4 x 16 3⁄8 in. (64.1 x 41.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1898-1900
                                        
                                    Deux femmes nues, les bras levés
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
charcoal counterproof on paper
25 1⁄4 x 16 3⁄8 in. (64.1 x 41.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1898-1900
Provenance
                                        
                                            Estate of the artist; Fourth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 April 1919, lot 350. 
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1988, lot 323.
Private collection, Chicago (acquired at the above sale).
Michael Werner Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, circa 1995).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, June 2002.
                                    Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 December 1988, lot 323.
Private collection, Chicago (acquired at the above sale).
Michael Werner Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, circa 1995).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, June 2002.
Literature
                                        
                                            J. Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, London, 1944, p. 76 (illustrated).
                                        
                                    Further details
                                        
                                            Theodore Reff has stated that, to his opinion, this work is by the hand of Edgar Degas.