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EDGAR DEGAS (1834–1917)

Danseuse rajustant son collant

Year c. 1885-1888
Medium Pastel and charcoal on paper
Dimensions 24.2 x 31.9 cm 9 ½ x 12 ½ in
Signed and dated Stamp of the vente Degas (lower right)

Provenance

The Degas Atelier, Paris, with the atelier stamp (Lugt 657) on the verso;

Galeries George Petit, Paris, 3éme vente Degas, 7-9th April 1919, lot 138/d;

Georges Durand-Ruel (purchased at the above the sale);

Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the family of the above on 11th April 1935);

Thence by descent in a private collection, France, until;

Sotheby’s London, 25 June 2002, lot 114;

Where acquired by Jean Luc Baroni;

By whom sold, Private Collection, UK.

Literature

L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London 1949, p. 381, under no. 130;

L. Schacherl, Edgar Degas: Dancers and Nudes, Munich and New York 1997, illustrated p. 26;

J. Gross (ed.), Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2003, p. 50, under no. 13, note 7 (entry by J. DeVonyer and S.D. Greenberg).

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