
Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection
Femme se coiffant
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Femme se coiffant
stamped Degas and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered 50/I
bronze
height: 18 ¼ in. 46.6 cm.
Conceived in wax circa 1865-81; this example cast in bronze by A.A. Hébrard foundry, Paris, from 1919.
O’Hana Gallery, London (acquired in 1966)
E. V. Thaw & Co., New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1966)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Exposition des sculptures de Degas, 1921, no. 62
John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. 50, pp. 138-39, 210 and 214, illustrations of other casts
Leonard von Matt and John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, 1956, no. 50, p. 154, pl. 75, illustration of another cast
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 107, n.p., illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Verona, Palazzo Forti, Degas, Sculpture, 1986, no. 50, pp. 147 and 199, illustrations of other casts
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. 50, pp. 210 and 214, illustration of the wax; p. 138, illustration of another cast; p. 139
Anne Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 62, pp. 182-83, illustrations of other casts; pp. 106-07
Sara Campbell, “Degas: The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, August 1995, no. 50, p. 35, illustration of another cast
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 50, pp. 218-19, illustrations of other casts
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 85, pp. 425-29 and 539-40, illustrations of other casts
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