Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Lot 1082

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Carnet de dessins

Closed13 May 2016

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Carnet de dessins
artist's notebook in original cloth binding and housed in a green Morocco slipcase; pencil and black Conté crayon on paper on 32 pages, including 25 pages of sketches and 7 pages of annotations
Each sheet: 5 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (15 x 8.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1879-1882

Marcel Guérin, Paris (circa 1925).
Mme Alfred Indig, Paris (by descent from the above).
Galerie Odermatt, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, July 1983.

Specialist note

In a letter of 7 March 2016, Professor Theodore Reff has stated his opinion that this notebook was used by Edgar Degas in 1879-1882.