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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Lot 1066 Property from a Private European Collector

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Programme de la soirée artistique du 15 mai 1884 (Galerie Ponsin)

Closed13 November 2015

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Programme de la soirée artistique du 15 mai 1884 (Galerie Ponsin)
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
pastel and charcoal on paper
9 7/8 x 12 ½ in. (25 x 31.9 cm.)
Drawn in 1884

Estate of the artist; Fourth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2-4 July 1919, lot 257a.
Sam Salz, Inc., New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1991, lot 117.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

In May and June of 1884, Degas completed four drawings -- including the present lot -- and a preliminary etching in four states for the program cover of a benefit concert for the Lycée in Nantes. Two of the drawings were owned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, until they were stolen during one of the nation's most notorious art heists on 18 March 1990. The whereabouts of these works are still unknown today.