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Danseuse se frottant le genou
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse se frottant le genou
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '39/O CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11 3/8 in. (31.3 cm.)
The original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; cast at a later date by the A.A. Hébrard foundry in an edition of twenty, numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder.
Danseuse se frottant le genou
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '39/O CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD' (on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11 3/8 in. (31.3 cm.)
The original wax model executed circa 1882-1895; cast at a later date by the A.A. Hébrard foundry in an edition of twenty, numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder.
Provenance
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm.
Hans Mott, Lidingö (Sweden) by the early 1950’s.
Private collection, Switzerland, by descent from the above in 1986.
Hans Mott, Lidingö (Sweden) by the early 1950’s.
Private collection, Switzerland, by descent from the above in 1986.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, London, 1957, no. XLVIII (another cast illustrated pl. 62).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976 (another cast illustrated pl. 76).
J. Rewald, The complete sculptures of Degas, London, 1976, no. 27, p. 12 (another cast illustrated p. 46).
M. Guillaud, Degas, Form and space, Paris, 1984, no. 36 (another cast illustrated fig. 161).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 39, p. 197 (another cast illustrated pp. 196 & 197).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976 (another cast illustrated pl. 76).
J. Rewald, The complete sculptures of Degas, London, 1976, no. 27, p. 12 (another cast illustrated p. 46).
M. Guillaud, Degas, Form and space, Paris, 1984, no. 36 (another cast illustrated fig. 161).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 39, p. 197 (another cast illustrated pp. 196 & 197).
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