EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

Femme assise dans un fauteuil, s'essuyant la nuque

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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Femme assise dans un fauteuil, s'essuyant la nuque
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the back); stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'AA HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE 44 HER.D' (on the left side)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
De Gas-Musson family, New Orleans (by descent from the above).
E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, by April 1950).
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York; sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 16 June 1972, lot 53.
Anon. sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 7 December 1973, lot 15.
William Kennedy, New York (1980).
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, October 1980.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, p. 157, no. LXX (another cast illustrated, fig. 23).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 179 and 201, no. LXX (original wax model illustrated, p. 179).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné" in Apollo, August 1995, vol. CXLII, no. 402, p. 32, no. 44 (another cast illustrated, fig. 42).
J. S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 206-207, no. 44 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated in color, p. 207; another cast illustrated in color, p. 206).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, pp. 451-453 and 535, no. 91 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated in color, pp. 450-453).
S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 300 and 366, no. 52 (original wax model illustrated, p. 295; original wax model illustrated again in color, p. 297; another cast illustrated in color, p. 301).

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