86 - Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917)

Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) "Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bras droit à terre" (Dancer, open arabesque on the right leg, right arm on the ground) Original wax model created between 1882 and 1895 Proof in bronze with a brown-black patina, lost-wax casting; edition of 20 proofs numbered from A to T and two numbered HER and HER D from 1919. Signed "Degas" on the terrace Bears the publisher's stamp "CIRE PERDUE / A.A. HEBRARD", the model and copy number number "2/ HER D" in the rear left-hand corner of the terrace. Height: 27.5 cm, terrace W. 38 x D. 11 cm; Overall length: 42.5 cm; Weight: approx. 3.3 kg Provenance: Hébrard estate; Galerie Drouant-David; acquired from the latter in 1952 by the current owner's father; private collection. Related works : -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bras droit à terre, circa 1885-1890, original wax, plastiline, metal frame on a wooden base, signed "Degas" in the wax, dim. 29 x 43.2 x 24.2 cm, former collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Washington, National Gallery of Art, n°inv.1999.80.1; -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bronze n°2 MODELE, bears the stamp "DEGAS" printed in the wax before casting, bears the foundry mark "CIRE PERDUE A.A.HEBRARD", inscribed "2/MODELE" on the terrace, numbered "2" below the base, dim. 28.3 x 20.4 x 36.7 cm (base 11.3 x 37.9 cm), Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum, n°inv. 1977.02.02; -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bronze with brown-black patina, mark with signature, numbering and foundry mark "Degas", "2/HER" and "A.A. HÉBRARD CIRE PERDUE", H.28.3 cm, provenance: Paul Rosenberg & Co, Inc, New York, Mr. and Mrs. Norton Simon, Los Angeles (acquired 1964), Lucille Ellis Simon, Los Angeles, Christie's New York sale of 8/11/2000. Other examples in museum collections: -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, cast circa 1920, bronze numbered "2/A", gift of Mrs. H.O Havemeyer in 1929, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, n°inv. 29.100.398; -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, copy 2/H, Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation; -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, between 1921 and 1931, statuette in patinated bronze, signed on the terrace on the right "DEGAS", on the rear left stamp "CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD", engraved below the stamp "2/P", engraved inside "2", H. 28.2 x W. 43 x D. 21 cm; wds. 3.3 kg, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, n°inv.RF 2067; -Edgar Degas, Danseuse, arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, bronze statuette, signed "Degas", bears the founder's mark and the number "2/R "H. 27 cm, Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, n°inv. 2672. Bibliography -Joseph S. Czestochowski, Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures. Catalog raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, our example marked as "unlocated" and listed under no. 2 HER D, p.125. Related literature: -John Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, p. 24, no. XLI , another illustrated copy, p. 96; -John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, London, 1957, no. XLI, another illustrated copy p. 152; - Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, no. S3, the illustrated wax, p. 140; -Degas Scultore, cat. exp. held at the Centre Mostre di Firenze Palazzo Strozzi from April 16 to June 15, 1986, Mazzotta, p.101 and p.173 ; -John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, no. XLI, illustrated wax p. 120, another illustrated proof p. 121; -Ss dir Bruno Gaudichon et Catherine Chevillot, Degas Sculpteur, cat. exp., Roubaix, La Piscine-musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, October 8, 2010-January 15, 2011, Paris, Gallimard, 2010, copy 2/P illustrated under no. 98 p.175; -Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour, Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, Ninetheenth-century art, volume II , Norton Simon Foundation, 2009, N°69 model, pp.362-364; -Ss dir. Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Daphne S Barbour, Shelley G. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Princeton University Press, 2010, cat. n°33, original wax, pp. 213-215; -Gregory Hedberg, The Degas Plasters: Groundbreaking Revelations about Degas' Sculpture and the Hébrard Bronzes, Stuttgart, Arnoldsche, 2023, pp.107-109.