Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection
Préparation à la danse, pied droit en avant
Auction Closed
May 16, 09:00 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Préparation à la danse, pied droit en avant
stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 57/MP
bronze
height: 22 ¼ in. 56.5 cm.
Conceived in wax circa 1882-95; this example is cast in bronze by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris after 1919.
Albino Palazzolo, Paris (acquired by 1973)
Yvon Palazzolo, Chiavari
Hôtel Druout, Paris, 21 June 1993, lot 9
Acquired in the 1990s by the present owner
Guillaume Janneau, “Les Sculptures de Degas," La Renaissance de l’art français, 1921, p. 353, illustration of another cast
Paul Vitry, Catalogue des sculptures du Moyen Âge de la Renaissance et des temps modernes, supplément, Paris, 1933, no. 1753, p. 69
John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XLVI, pp. 25 and 130, illustration of another cast
John Rewald and Leonard von Matt, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. XLVI, p. 151, illustration of another cast
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S.36, p. 142, illustration of the wax version
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. S.36, p. 142, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculptures of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 51, illustration of the wax version
Anne Pingeot, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Laure Margerie, Catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures du Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 1986, no. 2100, p. 132, illustration of another cast
John Rewald, Degas' Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLVI, pp. 130-31, illustration of another cast
Anne Pingeot and Frank Horvat, Degas: Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 36, pp. 44-45 and 170-71, illustration of another cast
Sara Campbell, “Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, August 1995, no. 57, pp. 38-39, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 57, pp. 232-33, illustration of another cast in color
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 60, pp. 331-32 and 544-45, illustration of another cast in color
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