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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Cheval en marche
stamped with signature, numbered and stamped with foundry mark 'Degas 10/L AA HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (Lugt 658; on the top of the base)
bronze with brown patina
length: 10 1/2 in. (26.4 cm.)
Original wax model executed in 1865-1881; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4 July 2001, lot 86.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, no. X, p. 20 (another cast illustrated p. 43).
P. Borel, Les sculptures inédites de Degas, Geneva, 1949 (another cast illustrated; titled 'Cheval au pas relevé').
J. Rewald & L. von Matt, Degas, Sculpture, Zurich, 1956, no. X, p. 142 (another cast illustrated pl. 9 & 20-22).
F. Russoli & F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S 52, p. 144 (another cast illustrated p. 143).
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas Princeton, 1976, pp. 59 & 97 (original wax model illustrated fig. 7).
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. X, p. 62 (original wax model illustrated p. 62; another cast illustrated p. 63).
A. Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures, Paris, 1991, no. 52, p. 177 (original wax model illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné,' in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no. 402, August 1995, no. 10, pp. 15-16 (another cast illustrated).
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, no. 10, p. 141 (original wax model illustrated, p. 141; another cast illustrated p. 140).
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D.S. Barbour & S.G. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Nineteenth-century Art, Pasadena, 2009, no. 34, pp. 232, 234 & 509-510 (original wax model illustrated pp. 232 & 234, and another cast illustrated pp. 232 & 233).
Exhibited
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Edgar Degas The Late Work, September 2012 - January 2013, p. 261 (illustrated p. 207).
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.