Jeune femme nue se coiffant

Details

EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Jeune femme nue se coiffant
signed 'Degas' (lower left)
pastel on paper
17 x 11 1⁄8 in. (43 x 28.5 cm.)
Drawn circa 1889-1890

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Albert Sancholle Henraux, Paris (by 1924).
Jean Dieterle, Paris.
Tedesco Frères, Paris.
Paul Pétridès, Paris.
Comtesse de Maistre, Paris.
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (by 1956).
Acquired by the Phillips family, by 1958.

Literature

A. Vollard, Degas, quatre-vingt-dix-huit reproductions signées par Degas (peintures, pastels, dessins et estampes), Paris, 1914 (illustrated, pl. XXXIII; titled Femme se peignant).
H. Rivière, Les dessins de Degas reproduits en fac-simile, Paris, 1924, no. 96 (illustrated, pl. 96; titled Femme nue se peignant).
The Connoisseur, June 1957, vol. CXXXIX, p. xxxii (illustrated).
P. Brame and T. Reff, Degas et son oeuvre, A Supplement, New York, 1984, p. 142, no. 131 (illustrated, p. 143).

Exhibited

Nassau County Museum of Art, La Belle Époque, June-September 1995, p. 43 (illustrated).

Further Details

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Lot Essay

“In dozens of charcoal drawings, pastels, and even sculptures, this angular averted figure towers over his pictorial repertory. Leaning forward to attend to her hair and dry her neck, the woman twists her back so that the side of her thighs and the breadth of her shoulders are simultaneously visible. The curiously flattened shape that resulted clearly fascinated the artist, offering an oblique structure that energized a number of major compositions.”
—Richard Kendall

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