Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
PROPERTY FROM A LONDON COLLECTION
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Paysage de l'Orne

Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Paysage de l'Orne
pastel over pen and ink on paper
10 7/8 x 16 5/8 in. (27.7 x 42.2 cm.)
Drawn circa 1884
Provenance
De Nöé, Ménil-Hubert.
Hellenburg; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 29 April 1964, lot 1.
Brookman collection (acquired at the above sale).
Literature
P. Brame and T. Reff, Degas et son oeuvre, A Supplement, New York, 1984, p. 112, no. 103 (illustrated, p. 113).
Exhibited
Kunstmuseum Bern, Degas, November 1951-January 1952, no. 76.
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Columbus Museum of Art, Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, June 2006-January 2007 (illustrated in color, p. 2).
Sale Room Notice
Please note the amended cataloguing and additional exhibition:

pastel over pen and ink on paper

Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and Columbus Museum of Art, Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, June 2006-January 2007 (illustrated in color, p. 2).

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Lot Essay

The present work was drawn in the vicinity of Ménil-Hubert, the home of Degas' lifelong friend Paul Valpinçon, whose decendents are the work's first recorded owners.

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