
Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Petite danseuse de quatorze ans
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Estimate
18,000,000 - 25,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Petite danseuse de quatorze ans
inscribed Degas, numbered HER and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE (on the base)
bronze with muslin skirt and satin hair ribbon on a wooden base
height: 101.3 cm. 39⅞ in.
Conceived in wax circa 1879-81 and cast in bronze from 1922.
Émile Peyonat, Saône et Loire
Claude Glassey, Geneva
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1964)
Sotheby’s, London, 27 June 2000, lot 3 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)
Sotheby’s, London, 24 June 2015, lot 14 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
X, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 2 April 1881, p. 110
Henry Havard, “L’Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le Siècle, 3 April 1881, p. 2
G.G., “L’Exposition des artistes indépendants,” La Justice, 4 April 1881, p. 3
Jules Claretie, “La Vie à Paris,” Le Temps, 5 April 1881, p. 3
Gustave Goetschy, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le Voltaire, 5 April 1881, pp. 1-2
Auguste Dalligny, “Les Indépendants: Sixième Exposition,” Le Journal des arts, 8 April 1881, p. 1
Louis Enault, “Chronique,” Moniteur des arts, 15 April 1881, p. 1
Charles Ephrussi, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, no. 16, 16 April 1881, pp. 126-127
Bertall, “Exposition: Des peintres intransigeants et nihilistes: 36, boulevard des Capucines,” Paris Journal, 21 April 1881, p. 1
Elie de Mont, “L’Exposition du boulevard des Capucines,” La Civilisation, 21 April 1881, p. 2
Paul de Charry, “Les Indépendants,” Le Pays, 22 April 1881, p. 3
Paul Mantz, “Exposition des oeuvres des artistes indépendants,” Le Temps, 23 April 1881, p. 3
Nina de Villars, “Variétés: Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le Courrier du soir, 23 April 1881, p. 2
Henry Trianon, “Sixième Exposition de peinture par un groupe d’artistes: 35, boulevard des Capucines,” Le Constitutionnel, 24 April 1881, p. 2
Comtesse Louise, “Lettres familières sur l’art: Salon de 1881,” La France nouvelle, 1-2 May 1881, pp. 2-3
Jules Claretie, La Vie à Paris: 1881, Paris, 1881, pp. 150-151
La Fare, “Chez les Impressionnistes,” Le Gaulois, 23 February 1882, p. 1
J.-K. Huysmans, “L’Exposition des indépendants en 1881,” L’Art moderne, Paris, 1883
Paul Gsell, “Edgar Degas, Statuaire,” La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, no. 10, December 1918, p. 375, the wax illustrated
Paul-André Lemoisne, “Les Statuettes de Degas,” Art et Décoration, September-October 1919, p. 112, the wax illustrated
Paul Jamot, Degas, Paris, 1924, p. 149, pl. 52, the wax illustrated
Georges Grappe, Degas, Paris, 1936, p. 58, the wax illustrated (titled Jeune danseuse de quatorze ans)
John Rewald, ed., Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. XX, p. 21; pls. 60-61, 63-69, the wax and another cast illustrated
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, vol. I, Paris, 1946, pp. 128-129, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Works by Edgar Degas, 1947, pl. LVIII, another cast illustrated
Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, pls. 96 and 97, another cast illustrated
Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York, 1951, p. 23, another cast illustrated
Daniel Catton Rich, Degas (1834-1917), New York, 1953, pl. 30, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, Original Wax Sculptures, 1955, no. 20, n.p., the wax illustrated
John Rewald, L’Œuvre sculpté de Degas, Zurich, 1957, no. XX, pp. 17-19 and 146, pls. 24-30, another cast illustrated
Louisine W. Havemeyer, Sixteen to Sixty: Memoirs of a Collector, New York, 1961, pp. 254-255
Raymond Cogniat, Degas, New York, 1968, p. 29, another cast illustrated
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S73, p. 145, the wax illustrated; pl. LXIV, another cast illustrated in colour
John Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1973, p. 451, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Edgar Degas: The Reluctant Impressionist, 1974, fig. 5, n.p., another cast illustrated
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, p. 63, the wax illustrated in colour; pls. 26 and 28, the wax illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, The Lefevre Gallery, The Complete Sculptures of Edgar Degas, 1976, pp. 2 and 91, another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated in colour on the cover
Theodore Reff, Degas: The Artist's Mind, New York, 1976, p. 240, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Degas 1879, 1979, pp. 66-67, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Degas and the Dance, 1979, p. 43, another cast illustrated
Ian Dunlop, Degas, London, 1979, p. 181, another cast illustrated
Maurice Guillaud, ed., Degas: Form and Space, Paris, 1984, pp. 181 and 183, another cast and the plaster illustrated in colour
Roy McMullen, Degas. His Life, Times, and Work, Boston, 1984, p. 333, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas. The Dancers, 1984-85, p. 64, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 134, another cast illustrated
Götz Adriani, Degas, Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings, New York, 1985, p. 367, the wax illustrated
Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York, 1985, p. 23, another cast illustrated
Frances Weitzenhoffer, The Havemeyers—Impressionism Comes to America, New York, 1986, fig. 166, another cast illustrated in colour
Denys Sutton, Edgar Degas, Life and Work, New York, 1986, p. 186, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco, The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, The New Paintings, Impressionism 1874-1886, 1986, p. 336, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 361, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Verona, Palazzo Forti, Degas Scultore, 1986, pp. 8, 21, 59, 98-99, 210, the wax and another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, The Private Degas, 1987, p. 83, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Degas in the Clark Collection, 1987, p. 64, another cast illustrated in colour
Richard Thomson, Degas. The Nudes, London, 1988, no. 113, p. 123, the wax illustrated
Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge, Degas, London, 1988, pp. 206-207, the wax and another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Paris, Grand Palais and Ottawa, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Degas, 1988-89, pp. 344 and 345, the wax illustrated; p. 351, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Degas Images of Women, 1989, p. 10, the wax illustrated
Gary Tinterow and Anne Norton, “Degas aux expositions impressionnistes,” in Degas inédit—Actes du Colloque Degas, Paris, 1989, p. 341, the wax illustrated
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture. Catalogue Raisonné, New Edition, San Francisco, 1990, no. XX, pp. 35 and 79, the plaster illustrated; p. 78, the wax and another cast illustrated; another cast illustrated on the dust jacket
Henri Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, pp. 387, 391-394, 402, 612-614 and 672
Anne Pingeot and Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 73, pp. 33-35, 188-189 and on the dust-jacket, another cast illustrated
Henri Loyrette, Degas: Passion and Intellect, London, 1993, pp. 1-6, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Kusthaus Zürich and Tubingen, Kunsthalle, Degas, Portraits, 1994-95, p. 288, another cast illustrated in colour; p. 355, another cast illustrated
Sara Campbell, “Degas, The Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné,” Apollo, London, August 1995, pp. 1, 15, 46, 61, 64 and on the cover, the wax and another cast illustrated; p. 47, the present cast listed
Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, vol. I, San Francisco, 1996, pp. 326-374; vol. II, p. 190, the wax illustrated
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, New York, 1996, no. 14, p. 44, the wax illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, The National Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas Beyond Impressionism, 1996-97, p. 32, the wax illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, 1997-98, p. 77, the wax illustrated
Martine Kahane, Delphine Pinasa, Wilfride Piollet and Sara Campbell, “Enquête sur la Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans de Degas,” La revue du Musée d'Orsay, no. 7, Paris, Autumn 1998, pp. 46, 63, 65, 68 and 70-71, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Degas and the Little Dancer, 1998-99, pp. ii, 40, 45, 101 and pl. 45, the plaster illustrated in colour; pp. Viii, 77 and 107, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 100 and pl. 44, another cast illustrated in colour; the plaster illustrated in colour on the dust jacket
Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 73, pp. 2, 20-21, 48, 51, 100 and 264-267, another cast illustrated; pp. 88, 90 and 92-93, the plaster illustrated; another cast illustrated in colour on the dust jacket; p. 267, the present cast listed
Exh. Cat., The Detroit Institute of Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Degas and the Dance, 2002-03, p. 123, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Degas et gli italiani a Parigi, 2003, p. 43, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Degas at Harvard, 2005, p. 45, another cast illustrated in colour
Werner Hofmann, Degas. A Dialogue of Difference, London, 2007, no. 143, p. 186, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Portland Art Museum, The Dancer: Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec, 2008, pp. 21, 46 and 68, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Fundación Mapfre, Degas: el proceso de la creación, 2008-09, pp. 12, 240-242 and 244, another cast illustrated
Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour and Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena, 2009, no. 47, p. 279, another cast illustrated in colour; p. 280, the wax illustrated in colour; p. 281, the plaster illustrated in colour; p. 556, the present cast listed
Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour and Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Princeton, 2010, pp. 1, 117, 120, 125-126, 139 and 142, the wax and plaster illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Royal Academy of Arts, Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, 2011, pp. 70 and 85, the wax illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Edgar Degas, The Late Work, 2012-13, pp. 15 and 23, the wax illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Degas’ Method, 2013, pp. 12, 37, 55 and 294, another cast illustrated in colour
Daphne Barbour and Suzanne Quillen Lomax, eds., Facture, Conservation, Science, Art History, Volume 3, Degas, New Haven and London, 2017, pp. 52, 79 and 159, the wax illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum and Denver Art Museum, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, 2017-18, p. 160, another cast illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d’Orsay and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Opéra, 2019-20, pp. 255, 258 and 260; p. 261, the wax illustrated in colour
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