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Property from a Distinguished Estate, New York

Edgar Degas

Trois danseuses

Estimate

3,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Estate, New York

Edgar Degas

(1834 - 1917)


Trois danseuses

stamped Degas (lower left)

pastel on tracing paper mounted on card

26 ⅜ by 20 in.   67 by 51 cm.

Executed circa 1897.

Estate of the artist

Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 1ère Vente, 6-8 May 1918, lot 276 (consigned by the above)

Simon Bauer, Paris (acquired at the above sale) 

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 23 October 1930)

M. Ledoux (acquired from the above on 28 January 1966)

Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Maryland

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 12 May 1980, lot 13 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, 1960, no. 54, n.p.

Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1946, no. 1280, p. 742; p. 743, illustrated

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. 1097, p. 135, illustrated (titled Tre Ballerine che si rassettano)

Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, vol. III, Paris, 1984, no. 1280, p. 742; p. 743, illustrated