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Property from a Prominent West Coast Collection
Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit, deuxième étude
Auction Closed
May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prominent West Coast Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit, deuxième étude
stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 59/M (on the base)
bronze
height: 18 ½ in. 47 cm.
Conceived in wax circa 1882-1911; this example cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris, from 1919.
Niels Kampmann, Denmark
Sotheby’s, London, 30 June 1987, lot 4 (consigned by the above)
Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above on 27 July 1990 by the present owner
Wilhem Sulser, "Notizen zur Plastiksammlung Werner Bär,” Kunst und Volk, vol. 4, no. 17, 1955, p. 82, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas, Sculpture, London 1957, no. LXI, illustration of another cast
Kunsthaus, ed., Sammlung Werner und Nelly Bär, Zurich 1965, no. 66, illustration of another cast
Daniel Catton Rich, Edgar-Hilaire-Germain Degas, New York, 1966, p. 11, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S34, p. 142, illustration of the wax version
Ian Dunlop, Degas, London, 1979, no. 196, p. 211, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas’s Complete Sculpture, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. LXI, pp. 160-61, illustration of the wax version and another cast
Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 33, p. 169, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, "Degas: The Sculpture. A Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, August 1995, no. 56, p. 40, fig. 57, illustration of another cast
Joseph Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, eds., Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 59, pp. 236-37, illustration of another cast (with incorrect provenance)
Werner Hofmann, Degas, A Dialogue of Difference, London, 2007, no. 208, p. 262, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 59, cat. 77, pp. 395-98, illustration of another cast
Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, eds., Edgar Degas Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, p. 370, illustration of the wax version
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