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Lot 475 |PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Femme s'étirant
Closed1 March 2017
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Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Femme s'étirant
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the top right of the base); numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '53/H A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top left of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 14 1/8 in. (36 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast after 1919 in an edition of twenty-one numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder
Femme s'étirant
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the top right of the base); numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '53/H A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top left of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 14 1/8 in. (36 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast after 1919 in an edition of twenty-one numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Femme s'étirant
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the top right of the base); numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '53/H A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top left of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 14 1/8 in. (36 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast after 1919 in an edition of twenty-one numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder
Femme s'étirant
stamped with the signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the top right of the base); numbered and stamped with the foundry mark '53/H A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the top left of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 14 1/8 in. (36 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast after 1919 in an edition of twenty-one numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, by 1949.
The Lefevre Gallery, London, by 1976.
Acquired from the above by the grandfather of the present owner, and thence by descent.
The Lefevre Gallery, London, by 1976.
Acquired from the above by the grandfather of the present owner, and thence by descent.
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Switzerland, 1957, no. LXIV, pp. 156 & 164 (this cast illustrated pls. 66-67).
M. Beaulieu, 'Les Sculptures de Degas', in La revue du Louvre et des musées de France, Paris, no. 6, 1969, no. 16 (another cast illustrated p. 378).
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 129, pp. 19, 82 & 83 (the original wax model illustrated n.p.).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 53, p. 36 (another cast illustrated fig. 51).
J. S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 53, p. 225 (another cast illustrated pp. 224-225).
S. Glover Lindsay, D. S. Barbour & S. G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Washington D.C., 2010, no. 55, pp. 310-314 & 366 (the original wax model illustrated pp. 310, 311, 313 & 366).
M. Beaulieu, 'Les Sculptures de Degas', in La revue du Louvre et des musées de France, Paris, no. 6, 1969, no. 16 (another cast illustrated p. 378).
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 129, pp. 19, 82 & 83 (the original wax model illustrated n.p.).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné', in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 53, p. 36 (another cast illustrated fig. 51).
J. S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 53, p. 225 (another cast illustrated pp. 224-225).
S. Glover Lindsay, D. S. Barbour & S. G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Washington D.C., 2010, no. 55, pp. 310-314 & 366 (the original wax model illustrated pp. 310, 311, 313 & 366).
London, The Lefevre Gallery, The Complete Sculptures of Degas, November - December 1976, no. 66, p. 18 (illustrated p. 83).