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Femme se lavant la jambe gauche, deuxième étude
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Femme se lavant la jambe gauche, deuxième étude
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658, on the front of the base); numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '61/H CIRE PERDUE A.A.HEBRARD' (on the back of the base)
bronze with reddish brown patina, the tub with a dark brown and green patina
Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.)
Original wax version executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast between 1919 and 1937 or later in an edition of 20 numbered A-T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Femme se lavant la jambe gauche, deuxième étude
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658, on the front of the base); numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '61/H CIRE PERDUE A.A.HEBRARD' (on the back of the base)
bronze with reddish brown patina, the tub with a dark brown and green patina
Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.)
Original wax version executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast between 1919 and 1937 or later in an edition of 20 numbered A-T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Maître Boisgirard, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 November 1975.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Exh. cat., Exposition des sculptures de Degas, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris, May - June 1921, no. 61.
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. 68 (another cast illustrated).
A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 64 (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, August 1995, no. 61 (another cast illustrated p. 41).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 61 (another cast illustrated pp. 240-241).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. 68 (another cast illustrated).
A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 64 (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, August 1995, no. 61 (another cast illustrated p. 41).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 61 (another cast illustrated pp. 240-241).
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