Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from a Private Collection
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
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