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Danseuse attachant le cordon de son maillot
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse attachant le cordon de son maillot
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '33/H CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD' (on the base)
bronze with light brown patina
Height: 16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.)
Original wax version executed in 1882-1895; 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
Danseuse attachant le cordon de son maillot
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '33/H CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD' (on the base)
bronze with light brown patina
Height: 16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.)
Original wax version executed in 1882-1895; 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
Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin.
Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, by whom acquired from the above in 1929, and by descent.
Nationalised as part of the land reform under the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia after 8 May 1945.
Transferred as state property by the Staatliche Kunstkommission (Ministerium des Innern) to the administration of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in 1952.
Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.
Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, by whom acquired from the above in 1929, and by descent.
Nationalised as part of the land reform under the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia after 8 May 1945.
Transferred as state property by the Staatliche Kunstkommission (Ministerium des Innern) to the administration of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in 1952.
Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.
Literature
Exh. cat., Exposition des sculptures de Degas, Paris, May - June 1921, no. 33.
V. Ruthenberg, Gemälde und Bildwerke vom Klassizismus bis Impressionismus, Berlin, 1956, p. 16 (illustrated pl. 17).
A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 15.
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. 28.
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, August 1995, no. 33 (another cast illustrated p. 27).
Museumsjournal, Berlin, Nationalgalerie, vol. 9, no. II, April 1995 (illustrated p. 3).
F.C. Brader, 'Meisterwerke im Verborgenen. Die Sammlung Otto Krebs', in A. Pophanken & F. Billeter (eds.), Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Französische Kunst in deutschen Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Passagen - Deutsches Forum zur Kunstgesichte, vol. III, Berlin, 2001, p. 309, note 74.
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 33 (another cast illustrated pp. 186-187).
B. Maaz (ed.), Nationalgalerie Berlin, Bestandskatalog der Skulpturen, vol. II, Das XIX. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 2006, no. 1445 (illustrated p. 908).
V. Ruthenberg, Gemälde und Bildwerke vom Klassizismus bis Impressionismus, Berlin, 1956, p. 16 (illustrated pl. 17).
A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 15.
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. 28.
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, August 1995, no. 33 (another cast illustrated p. 27).
Museumsjournal, Berlin, Nationalgalerie, vol. 9, no. II, April 1995 (illustrated p. 3).
F.C. Brader, 'Meisterwerke im Verborgenen. Die Sammlung Otto Krebs', in A. Pophanken & F. Billeter (eds.), Die Moderne und ihre Sammler. Französische Kunst in deutschen Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Passagen - Deutsches Forum zur Kunstgesichte, vol. III, Berlin, 2001, p. 309, note 74.
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 33 (another cast illustrated pp. 186-187).
B. Maaz (ed.), Nationalgalerie Berlin, Bestandskatalog der Skulpturen, vol. II, Das XIX. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 2006, no. 1445 (illustrated p. 908).
Exhibited
Berlin, Alten Nationalgalerie, Frankreich in der Nationalgalerie: Courbet, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Rodin, May - October 2007, no. 39 (illustrated).
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