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Property from a Private Collection

Edgar Degas

Femme assise s'essuyant la hanche gauche

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Femme assise s'essuyant la hanche gauche

stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 46/I (on the base)

bronze

height: 13 ¾ in. 35 cm.

Conceived in wax circa 1896-1911; this example cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris, from 1919.

The Lefevre Gallery, London (acquired by 1950) 

Christie's, London, 28 June 1982, lot 5A

Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired from the above) 

Christie's, New York, 14 November 1996, lot 118

Acquired from the above by the present owner

John Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, London, 1944, no. LXIX, pls. 134-35, illustrations of the wax version and another cast

John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, L'Oeuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1956, no. LXIX, p. 159, pls. 85-88, illustrations of another cast

Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorello Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S67, p. 145, illustration of another cast

Abram Lerner, ed., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, 1974, no. 210, p. 161, illustration of another cast

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 109, pl. 133, illustration of another cast

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXIX, pp. 176-77, illustration of another cast and 200, illustration of another cast in color

Anne Pigeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 59, pp. 169-70, pls. 122-23, illustrations of another cast

Sara Campbell, "Degas: The Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, August 1995, no. 46, p. 33, illustration of another cast

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 46, pp. 211-12, illustrations of other casts in color

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 93, pp. 458-59 and 536, illustrations of another cast in color

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Degas, May - June 1950, no. 34, p. 11