Danse Espagnole, c.1885
Stamped 'Degas', the foundry mark 'A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue' and numbered '20/F'
Conceived circa 1885 and cast after 1919 in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts reserved for the Degas heirs marked HER.D and HER by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris
Conceived circa 1885 and cast after 1919 in an edition of 20 numbered A to T plus 2 casts reserved for the Degas heirs marked HER.D and HER by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry, Paris
Bronze
height 16 1/4 in, 41.3 cm
Provenance
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by 1953Galerie Georges Moos, Paris
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1955 (acquired at the above)
Mrs. Allen Manus, Ontario, May 1956 (acquired at the above)
Private Collection, New Jersey
Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York
Robert Carmel, New York, 1985 (acquired at the above)
Christie's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 28 (sold by the Estate of the above)
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha (acquired at the above)
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Exposition des sculptures de Degas, 1921, no.16New York, The Grolier Club, Prints, Drawings and Bronzes by Degas, 1922, no.73
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Tableaux français, 1953, no. 33, illus.
Literature
J. Rewald, Degas, Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York 1944, p. 27, no. LXVI, reproduction of another cast p.130L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London 1949, no. 154, reproduction of another cast n.p.
J. Rewald & L. Von Matt, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich 1956, no.LXVI, reproduction of another cast pl.51
P. Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Paris 1959, reproduction of another cast p.61
F. Russoli & F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan 1970, no. S16, reproduction of another cast p.141
C.W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton 1976, no.69, reproduction of another cast n.p.
J. & M. Guillaud, Degas, Form and Space, Paris 1984, no.180, reproduction of another cast n.p.
R. Gordon & A. Forge, Degas, New York 1988, reproduction of another cast p.209
J. Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue raisonné, San Francisco 1990, no. LXVI, reproduction of the wax version p.170 and of another cast p.171
A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Paris 1991, no.16, reproduction of another cast p.160
S. Campbell, "Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné," in Apollo, vol. CXLII, no.402, August 1995, no.20, reproduction of another cast p.20
J.S. Czestochowski & A. Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis 2002, no.20, reproduction of another cast pp.160-61
S. Campbell, R. Kendall, D. Barbour & S. Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum, vol. II, Pasadena 2009, no.51, reproduction of another cast in pp.298-99
S. Lindsay, D. Barbour & S. Sturman, Edgar Degas Sculpture, Washington, D.C. 2010, reproduction of the wax version p.369