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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Le Bain (Femme dans sa baignoire)
signed 'Degas' (lower center)
pastel over monotype on paper
Image size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 28 cm.)
Sheet size: 15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (39.5 x 29.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1886
Provenance
Edouard Vuillard, Paris.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, March 1903).
M. Pellet, Paris (acquired from the above, November 1910).
Dr. Edouard Mollard, Paris (by 1937).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20 June 1951, lot 5.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris.
Sam Salz, Inc., New York.
Aaron W. Davis, New York; Estate sale, Christie's, New York, 3 November 1982, lot 20.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Literature
F. Fénéon, "Aux magasins des marchands de tableaux" in La revue indépendante, February 1888, vol. VI, p. 309.
G. Grappe, L'art et le beau, Degas, London, 1909, vol. I (illustrated, pl. 40).
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1947, vol. III, p. 588, no. 1010 (illustrated, p. 589; dated 1890).
J. Lassaigne and F. Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Paris, 1974, p. 128, no. 951 (illustrated, p. 129; dated circa 1890).
J.S. Boggs, ed., Degas, exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1988, pp. 388, 417-418 and 420 (illustrated, p. 388, fig. 197; dated circa 1883-1886).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Boussod Valadon, January 1888.
London, Grafton Galleries, Pictures by Boudin, Cezanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, January-February 1905, no. 70.
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Degas, March-April 1937, p. 103, no. 139.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Degas Sculptures, October 2003-January 2004.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, The Impressionists and Photography, October 2019-January 2020, pp. 229 and 242, no. 147 (illustrated in color, p. 242; dated circa 1890).