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Edgar Degas

(French, 1834-1917)

Danseuse, arabesque overte sur la jambe droite, bras droit à terre

1885-90
conceived c. 1885-1890 and cast between 1919 and 1937 by A.A. Hebrard
AP aside from the edition A - T plus an HER and HERD
bronze
27.5 x 42.2 x 20 cm (10⅞ x 16⅝ x 7⅞ in.)
signature stamp (Lugt 658), numbered and founder's stamp on the edge of the terrace ‘Degas / 2 / CIRE / PERDUE / A.A. HEBRARD", marked with the personal monogram of Albino Palazzolo six times under the base 'AP'

Albino Palazzolo, Paris
Yvon Palazzolo, Chiavari, Italy
Palazzolo Estate
Sale: Sotheby's London, 28 March 1973, lot 35
Yvon Palazzolo
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Me Loudmer, 21 June 1993, lot 10
Private Collection, Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Me Loudmer, 17 June 1996, lot 14
Gallery Danese/Corey, New York
Private Collection, Michigan
Private Collection (by descent from above)

Vitry, Catalogues des sculpture du Moyen-Age, de la Renaisance et des temps modernes, Paris, Musée Nationaux, 1993, no.1720 (another cast illus.)
Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture, New York, Pantheon Books, 1944, pl. no.XLI, p.96 (another cast illus.)
Borel, Les sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949, p.7 (wax version)
Rewald, Degas Sculptures, London, 1957, fig.17, p.150 (another cast illus)
Catalogue du Musée d'Orsay, catalogue sommaire illustré des sculptures, Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1986, p.126 (another cast illus.)
Failing, Cast in Bronze: The Degas dilemma, Art News, January 1988, p.140 (another cast illus.)
Minervo, S de Naurois, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1988, p.140 (another cast illus.)
Art for the Nation, Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery, March - June, 1991, p.196-199 (wax version)
Pingeot, F. Horvat, Degas Sculpture, Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1991, fig.3, p.154 (another cast illus.)
Campbell, Degas: The Sculptures - Catalogue raisonné, London, Appollo, 1995, bronze no.2, Fig. 2, p.12
S. Czestochowski, A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: catalogue raisonné of the bronze, Memphis, International Arts, 2002, no.16, p.152-153 (another cast illus. and this version noted under AP)

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Albino Palazzolo.

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$350,000 (+5% import VAT)

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