Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Lot 321 PROPERTY FROM THE STIFTUNG FÜR KREBS UND SCHARLACHFORSCHUNG

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Danseuse attachant le cordon de son maillot

Closed24 June 2010

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Danseuse attachant le cordon de son maillot
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658), numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '33/H CIRE PERDUE A.A.HÉBRARD' (on the base)
bronze with light brown patina
Height: 16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.)
Original wax version executed in 1882-1895; this bronze version cast between 1919 and 1937 or later in an edition of 20 numbered A-T plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard

Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin.
Otto Krebs, Mannheim and Gut Holzdorf near Weimar, by whom acquired from the above in 1929, and by descent.
Nationalised as part of the land reform under the Soviet Military Administration in Thuringia after 8 May 1945.
Transferred as state property by the Staatliche Kunstkommission (Ministerium des Innern) to the administration of the Nationalgalerie Berlin (East) in 1952.
Property of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz Berlin from 1990 until restituted to the Stiftung für Krebs - und Scharlachforschung on 30 April 2008.