Edgar Degas

Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Paris (acquired by 1955);

O'Hana Gallery, London (acquired in 1957);

Alex and Rita Hillman, New York (acquired from the above in 1957);

Sotheby's, New York, 15 November 2016, lot 413 (consigned by the family of the above);

Where acquired by the present collector.

London, O'Hana Gallery, French Masters, 20 June - 15 September 1957.

F. Fosca, “Degas Sculpteur,” L'Art et les Artistes, vol. 3, June 1921, p. 374, reproduction of another cast (titled Jeune poulain s'élançant).

A. Alexandre, “Degas, nouveaux aperçus,” L'Art et les Artistes, vol. 29, no. 154, February 1935, p. 170, reproduction of another cast (titled Jeune poulain s'élançant).

J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. VII, p. 19, pl. 42, reproduction of another cast.

J. Rewald and L. von Matt, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich, 1957, no. VII, p. 144, pl. 23, reproduction of another cast.

Exh. Cat., New York, Wildenstein and Co., Degas' Racing World, 1968, no. 116, reproduction of another cast.

Michèle Beaulieu, “Les Sculptures de Degas,” La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, vol. 19, no. 1, 1969, p. 373.

F. Russoli and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S 45, pp. 142-43, reproduction of the wax version.

J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, no. 45, pp. 142-43, reproduction of the original wax model.

C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, no. 59, pp. xiii, 22-23 and 99-100, reproduction of the original wax model.

Exh. Cat., London, Lefevre Gallery, The Complete Sculptures of Degas, 1976, no. 45, pp. 15 and 64, reproduction of another cast.

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre culturel du Marais, Degas, Form and Space, Paris, 1984, pp. 210 and 214, reproduction of another cast.

Exh. Cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi (and traveling), Degas Scultore, 1986, no. 30, pp. 129 and 188, reproduction of another cast.

J. McCarty, "A Sculptor's Thoughts on the Degas Waxes," Essays in Honor of Paul Mellon Collector and Benefactor, Washington, D.C., 1986, pp. 220-21, reproduction of the wax model and an x-ray of the wax model.

J. D. Weintraub, Master Sculptors of the XX Century: 100 Works by Master and Contemporary Sculptors, New York, 1987, no. 28, reproduction of another cast.

J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. VII, pp. 56-57, reproductions of another cast and the original wax model.

A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 45, pp. 174-75, reproduction of the original wax model.

Emily Braun, Manet to Matisse: The Hillman Family Collection, New York, 1994, pp. 60-61, reproduced in color.

S. Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas' Bronzes," Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 30, pp. 25-26, reproduction of another cast. 

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Degas at the Races, 1998, no. 116, pp. 197-98, reproduction of another cast.

J.S. Czestochowski and A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 30, pp. 180-81, reproduction of another cast and the original wax model.

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Fundación Mapfre, Degas: el proceso de la creación, 2008-09, no. 100, p. 219, reproduction of another cast.

S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, vol. II, 2009, no. 41, pp. 255-58, reproduction in color of the original wax model; 524-25.

S. Glover Lindsay, D.S. Barbour and S.G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Princeton, 2010, no. VII, p. 369, reproduction of the original wax model.

Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Degas' Method, 2013, no. 37, pp. 292-93, reproduction of another cast.

Gregory Hedberg, The Degas Plasters: Groundbreaking revelations about Degas' sculpture and the Hébrard bronzes, Stuttgart, 2023, p. 298, reproduction of the plaster cast.