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Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection

Edgar Degas

Femme se coiffant

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

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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