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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Lot 24

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Etude pour La programme de la Soirée artistique du 15 mai 1884 (Galerie Ponsin)

Closed21 September 2010

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Etude pour La programme de la Soirée artistique du 15 mai 1884 (Galerie Ponsin)
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
charcoal on tracing paper laid down on paper
9 5/8 x 12 3/8 in. (24.4 x 31.6 cm.)
Drawn in 1884

Estate of the artist; Fourth sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2-4 July 1919, lot 257b.
Paulette Goddard Remarque, New York; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1987, lot 6.
Private collection, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

In May and June of 1884, Degas completed four drawings 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 nations most notorious art heists on 18 March 1990. The whereabouts of these works are still unknown today.