$136,275
Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Woman Getting Out of Bath / Femme Sortant du Bain Inscribed "Degas" in the base, foundry mark "CIRE PERDUE A. A. HEBRARD" and numbered "71/T" on the base. Bronze, height 16 1/2 in. (42.0 cm). Condition: Extremely minor wear to surface. Provenance: A.Private New England Collection . Literature: Campbell, Sara, Degas, The Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné (London: Apollo, 1995), no. 71, illustration of another cast, p. 45; Czestochowski, Joseph S. and Anne Pinegeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonne of the Bronzes (Memphis: International Arts), 2002, illustration of another cast; Rewald, John, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalog (New York: Pantheon Books, Inc.), 1944, No. LIX, illus; Rewald, John, Degas¹s Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts), 1990. No. LIX, illus. N.B. Degas¹s work in clay and wax began as early as 1865, and by 1880 he worked with it almost exclusively. He did not have any of these works cast in bronze during his lifetime, perhaps a result of his perfectionism as he ³did dream of having some cast in bronze, as he once confessed to Maillol, but he was apparently reluctant because bronze cannot be retouched.²1 Degas never exhibited any of his sculpture during his lifetime, except for The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, which appeared at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1881. Degas frequently used the female nude as the subject of his sculptural work, a
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2008-09-12
