LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze with muslin skirt and satin hair ribbon on a wooden base

Measurements:

39.88 in. (101.30 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed Degas, numbered HER and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE (on the base)

Literature:

X, ‘Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 2nd April 1881, the wax mentioned Henry Havard, ‘L’Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in Le Siècle, 3rd April 1881, the wax mentioned G.G., ‘L’Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in La Justice, 4th April 1881, the wax mentioned Jules Claretie, ‘La Vie à Paris: Les Artistes Indépendants’, in Le Temps, 5th April 1881, the wax mentioned Gustave Gœtschy, ‘Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in Le Voltaire, 5th April 1881, the wax mentioned Auguste Dalligny, ‘Les Indépendants: Sixième Exposition’, in Le Journal des arts, 8th April 1881, the wax mentioned Louis Enault, ‘Chronique’, in Moniteur des arts, 15th April 1881, the wax mentioned Charles Ephrussi, ‘Exposition des Artistes Indépendants’, in La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 16th April 1881, the wax mentioned Bertall, ‘Expositions: Des peintres intransigéants et nihilistes: 36, boulevard des Capucines’, in Paris Journal, 21st April 1881, the wax mentioned Elie de Mont, ‘L’Exposition du boulevard des Capucines’, in La Civilisation, 21st April 1881, the wax mentioned Paul de Charry, ‘Les Indépendants’, in Le Pays, 22nd April 1881, the wax mentioned p. 3 Paul Mantz, ‘Exposition des œuvres des artistes indépendants’, in Le Temps, 23rd April 1881, the wax mentioned p. 3 Nina de Villars, ‘Variétés: Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in Le Courrier du soir, 23rd April 1881, the wax mentioned p. 2 Henry Trianon, ‘Sixième Exposition de peinture par un groupe d’artistes: 35, boulevard des Capucines’, in Le Constitutionnel, 24th April 1881, the wax mentioned Comtesse Louise, ‘Lettres familières sur l’art: Salon de 1881’, in La France nouvelle, 1st-2nd May 1881, the wax mentioned Jules Claretie, ‘La Vie à Paris: Les Artistes indépendants’, in La Vie à Paris: 1881, 1881, the wax mentioned Victor Champier, ‘La Société des artistes indépendants’, in L’Année artistique: 1881, Paris, 1882, the wax mentioned La Fare, ‘Chez les Impressionnistes’, in Le Gaulois, 23rd February 1882, the wax mentioned Joris-Karl Huysmans, ‘L’Exposition des indépendants en 1881’, in L’Art moderne, Paris, 1883, the wax mentioned Félix Fénéon, ‘Les Impressionnistes’, in La Vogue, 13th-20th June 1886, the wax mentioned Paul Gsell, ‘Edgar Degas, Statuaire’, in La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, December 1918, illustration of the wax p. 375 Paul-André Lemoisne, ‘Les Statuettes de Degas’, in Art et Décoration, September-October 1919, illustration of the wax p. 112 Paul Jamot, Degas, Paris, 1924, illustration of the wax p. 52 Georges Grappe, Degas, Paris, 1936, illustration of the wax p. 58 John Rewald (ed.), Degas, Works in Sculpture - A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XX, illustrations of the wax and of another cast pp. 63-69 Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. I, illustration of another cast opposite p. 128 Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, nos. 96 & 97, illustrations of another cast Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York, 1951, illustration of another cast p. 23. John Rewald, Degas: Sculpture, London, 1957, no. XX, illustrations of another cast pls. 24-29 Louisine W. Havemeyer, Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector, New York, 1961, another cast mentioned pp. 254-255 Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S73, illustrations of the wax p. 145; pl. LXIV, color illustration of another cast p. 80 John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1973, illustrations of another cast p. 451 Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, fig. 26, illustration of the wax; fig. 28, illustration of a detail of the wax; color illustration of the wax opposite p. 62 Theodore Reff, Degas: The Artist's Mind, New York, 1976, fig. 157, color illustration of another cast p. 240 Ian Dunlop, Degas, London, 1979, illustrations of another cast p. 181 Degas. The Dancers (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1984, illustration of the wax p. 64 Maurice Guillaud (ed.), Degas: Form and Space, Paris, 1984, figs. 155 & 157, color illustrations of other casts Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York, 1985, illustration of another cast p. 21 Frances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers - Impressionism Comes to America, New York, 1986, fig. 166, color illustration of another cast Richard Thomson, The Private Degas, London, 1987, pl. 110, illustration of another cast p. 83 Richard Thomson, Degas. The Nudes, London, 1988, no. 113, illustrations of the wax and of another cast p. 123 Robert Gordon & Andrew Forge, Degas, London, 1988, illustrations of the wax and of another cast pp. 206-207 Degas (exhibition catalogue), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-89, illustrations of the wax p. 345 Gary Tinterow & Anne Norton, ‘Degas aux expositions impressionnistes’, in Degas inédit - Actes du Colloque Degas, Paris, 1989, illustration of another cast p. 341 John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture. Catalogue Raisonné, New Edition, San Francisco, 1990, no. XX, illustrations of the plaster pp. 35 & 79; illustration of the wax p. 78; illustrations of another cast p. 78 and on the dust-jacket Henri Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, pp. 387, 391-394, 402, 612-614 & 672 Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 73, illustrations of another cast pp. 33-35, 188-189 and on the dust-jacket Henri Loyrette, Degas: Passion and Intellect, London, 1993, color illustrations of another cast pp. 1-5 Sara Campbell, ‘Degas, The Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné’, in Apollo, London, August 1995, fig. 71, illustrations of another cast and the wax pp. 1, 46, 61, 64 and on the cover; the present cast listed p. 47 Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, San Francisco, 1996, vol. I, the wax listed p. 326; vol. II, illustration of the wax p. 190 Degas Beyond Impressionism (exhibition catalogue), The National Gallery, London & The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1996, fig. 23, color illustration of the wax p. 32 Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, New York, 1996, no. 14, illustration of the wax p. 44 Martine Kahane, Delphine Pinasa, Wilfride Piollet & Sara Campbell, ‘Enquête sur la Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans de Degas’, in La revue du Musée d'Orsay, no. 7, Paris, autumn 1998, illustrations of other casts pp. 46, 63, 65, 68, 70-71 Degas and the Little Dancer (exhibition catalogue), Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 1998, color illustration of the wax p. viii; illustration of the plaster p. 107; color illustration of another cast on the cover Joseph S. Czestochowski & Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 73, illustrations of another cast pp. 264-267; details of another cast illustrated on the dust-jacket; the present cast listed p. 267 Werner Hofmann, Degas. A Dialogue of Difference, London, 2007, no. 143, color illustration of another cast p. 186 Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour & Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, 2009, vol. II, no. 47, color illustrations of the wax pp. 279- 280; illustration of the plaster p. 281

Provenance:

Emile Peyonat, Saône et Loire Claude Glassey, Geneva Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1964. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 27th June 2000, lot 3) Purchased at the above sale by the present owner