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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF EDGAR M. BRONFMAN
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 14 HER A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.)
Original wax model conceived in 1882-1895; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively
Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 14 HER A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.)
Original wax model conceived in 1882-1895; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 November 1964, lot 42.
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Josef Rosensaf, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 March 1976, lot 26.
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Josef Rosensaf, New York; sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 17 March 1976, lot 26.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 24, no. XXXVII (another cast illustrated, p. 92).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, p. 149, no. XXXVII (another cast illustrated, p. 150, fig. 14).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 140, no. S 1 (another cast illustrated).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. x, no. 18 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 112, no. XXXVII (another cast illustrated; original wax model illustrated, p. 113).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 153, no. 1 (original wax model and another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, pp. 17-18, no. 14 (another cast illustrated, p. 17).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, p. 149, no. 14 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated in color, p. 148).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, p. 349, no. 65 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 348).
S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, p. 368 (illustrated in color).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1956, p. 149, no. XXXVII (another cast illustrated, p. 150, fig. 14).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 140, no. S 1 (another cast illustrated).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. x, no. 18 (original wax model illustrated).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, p. 112, no. XXXVII (another cast illustrated; original wax model illustrated, p. 113).
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 153, no. 1 (original wax model and another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, pp. 17-18, no. 14 (another cast illustrated, p. 17).
J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, p. 149, no. 14 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated in color, p. 148).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, p. 349, no. 65 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 348).
S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, p. 368 (illustrated in color).
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