LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

36 1?4 x 16 1?2 in. (92.1 x 41.9 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Degas dans les collections françaises, exposition organisée au profit de la Ligue Nationale contre le Taudis, 1955, p. 51, no. 122 (illustrated, p. 42; titled Femme nue à la draperie bleue and dated 1886). Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Edgar Degas: Exposition organisée au profit de la Société des amis du Louvre, June-October 1960, no. 44.

Literature:

P.-A. Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, New York, 1946, vol. III, p. 542, no. 934 (illustrated, p. 543). F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L’opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 129, no. 936 (illustrated, p. 128).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist; First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 89. Gaston Monteux, Paris. Germaine “Nini? Monteux and Bernard Ernest Reichenbach, Paris (by descent from the above); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 June 1937, lot 7. Bacri (acquired at the above sale). L. Salavin, Paris (by 1955). Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above). John T. Dorrance, Jr., Gladwyne, Pennsylvania (acquired from the above, 1969); Estate sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 18 October 1989, lot 21. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.