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An Impressionist Discovery: Property from a Private Collection

Edgar Degas

Après le bain, femme s’essuyant

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

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An Impressionist Discovery: Property from a Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Après le bain, femme s’essuyant

stamped Degas (lower left)

charcoal on tracing paper mounted on card

20 ¼ by 20 ¾ in.

51.4 by 52.7 cm.

Executed circa 1900.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, and it is included in the archives of the artist.

Estate of the artist 

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3e Vente Degas, 7-9 April 1919, lot 270 (consigned by the above)

Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the above) 

Private Collection, Europe 

Sotheby & Co., London, 4 December 1968, lot 22 (consigned by the above)

The Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired from the above) 

Acquired from the above in 1970 by the present owner

Tokyo, Marubeni Art Gallery, Masterpieces from Britain, 1969, no. 49, n.p., illustrated