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Materials:
bronze with reddish-brown patina
Size Notes:
Height: 17 3?4 in. (45 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Bronzes by Degas, December 1922, no. 59. London, The Leicester Galleries (Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd.), Works in Sculpture of Edgar Degas, February-March 1923, no. 67. Rome, Casa Editrice d'Arte Enzo Pinci, Seconda Biennale Romana, Mostra Internazionale di Belle Arti, November 1923-April 1924. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Degas, April-May 1924, no. 320. New York, Ferargil Galleries, Sculptures of Edgar Degas, October-November 1925, no. 67. Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Edgar Degas: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Sculpture, November-December 1933.
Literature:
J. Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 28, no. LXXI (another cast illustrated, pls. 138-139). J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, p. 157, no. LXXI (another cast illustrated, pl. 83). F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 144, no. S59 (another cast illustrated). J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 180-181, no. LXXI (another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated again). S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, p. 37, no. 54 (another cast illustrated, fig. 52; another cast illustrated again in color, p. 9). J. S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, pp. 227, no. 54 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated in color; another cast illustrated in color, p. 226). S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, pp. 461-464 and 542, no. 94 (original wax model illustrated and another cast illustrated in color, pp. 461-463). S.G. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 302-306, no. 53 (original wax model illustrated in color; original wax model illustrated again, p. 304).
Provenance:
Walther Halvorsen, Oslo (by 1921). Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (by 1922). Ferargil Galleries, New York (by 1925). Frank Crowninshield, New York (by 1928); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 20-21 October 1943, lot 138. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 10 November 1948, lot 29. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owners.