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Property from a Private Japanese Collection

Edgar Degas

Cheval à l'abreuvoir

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Japanese Collection

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917


Cheval à l'abreuvoir

stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 13/G (on the base)

bronze

length: 8 ½ in. 21 cm.

Conceived in wax circa 1865-68; this example cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris, by 1924.

Walther Halvorsen, London (acquired by 1924)

Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage, Firle Place, East Sussex (acquired circa 1932)

Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in the mid-1980s)

Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above in 1986)

John C. Whitehead, New York (acquired from the above in 1986)

Christie's, New York, 15 May 2015, lot 1011 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. II, p. 19, pl. 35, illustration of another cast 

John Rewald, Degas, Sculpture, The Complete Works, New York, 1957, no. II, p. 141, pl. 2, illustration of another cast

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S42, pp. 142-43, illustration of another cast 

Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1979, p. IX, pl. 9, illustration of another cast

Achim Moeller, The John C. Whitehead Collection, A Collection in Progress, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters, New York, 1987, pp. 40-41, illustrated

Ann Dumas, Degas’s Mlle. Fiocre in Context, Brooklyn, 1988, p. 33, illustration of another cast

John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. II, pp. 46-47, illustrations of the original wax version and another cast

Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 42, pp. 100-01, illustrations of the original wax version and another cast and p. 173

Sarah Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, p. 17, fig. 13, illustration of another cast 

Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 13, pp. 146-47, illustrations of the original wax version and other casts

Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley Sturman, eds., Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 13, p. 512, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Edgar Degas Sculpture, 2010, p. 369, illustration of the original wax version 

Montclair Art Museum, Late XIX and Early XX Century French Masters, The John C. Whitehead Collection, 1989, no. 32, p. 31

New York, Achim Moeller Fine Art, The Whitehead Collection, Late 19th and 20th Century French Masters, A Collection in Progress, 1997, no. 26, pp. 26-27, illustrated in color