Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Danseuse, les bras levés et ramenés derrière la tête

細節
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse, les bras levés et ramenés derrière la tête
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
charcoal and white chalk on paper
17¾ x 9 5/8 in. (44.9 x 24.4 cm.)
來源
The artist's studio, second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, lot 331 (illustrated p. 188).
Acquired in the 1960s-1970s and thence by descent to the present owners.
拍場告示
Please note the following additional provenance for this work:
The artist's studio, second sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11-13 December 1918, lot 331 (illustrated p. 188).
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris.
Private collection, Chicago, by the late 1940s.
Kunsthandel Schröder und Leisewitz, Bremen.
Acquired from the above in 1981, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Please also note the following additional literature references:
L. Browse, Degas Dancers, New York, 1949, p. 344, pl. 26 (illustrated).
J. Bouret, Degas, London, 1965, p. 76 (illustrated).

拍品專文

This work is one of five recorded drawings which are related to the figure of the dancer at the centre left of the oil Répétition d'un ballet sur la scène, circa 1876 (Lemoisne no. 400, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; cf. Lemoisne no. 402 & Atelier 2.331 & 4.276a).