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Property from a Prominent West Coast Collection

Edgar Degas

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