EDGAR DEGAS
9 ½ x 12 ½ in
Provenance
The Degas Atelier, Paris, with the atelier stamp (Lugt 657) on the verso;
Galeries George Petit, Paris, 3éme vente Degas, 7-9th April 1919, lot 138/d;
Georges Durand-Ruel (purchased at the above the sale);
Private Collection, Paris (acquired from the family of the above on 11th April 1935);
Thence by descent in a private collection, France, until;
Sotheby’s London, 25 June 2002, lot 114;
Where acquired by Jean Luc Baroni;
By whom sold, Private Collection, UK.
Literature
L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London 1949, p. 381, under no. 130;
L. Schacherl, Edgar Degas: Dancers and Nudes, Munich and New York 1997, illustrated p. 26;
J. Gross (ed.), Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2003, p. 50, under no. 13, note 7 (entry by J. DeVonyer and S.D. Greenberg).