EDGA DEGAS (1834–1917) - Lot 135

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EDGA DEGAS (1834–1917) - Lot 135
EDGA DEGAS (1834–1917) Dancer Tying the String of Her Leotard Original wax model created between 1885 and 1890 Bronze cast with a brown patina tinged with red, lost-wax casting Edition by Hébrard of 20 casts numbered A through T and two numbered HER and HER D, beginning in 1919 Signed “Degas” in intaglio, numbered “33 HER D,” and bears the publisher’s stamp “A.A. Hébrard/ Cire perdue” near the left foot H. 42.5 x W. 21 x D. 15 cm, on a base of Belgian black marble H. 1.8 x W. 22 x D. 16 cm Weight: 4.08 kg Provenance: -Myran Eknayan Collection (1892–1985); -Jacqueline Delubac Collection (1907–1997), by inheritance; -Private collection, by inheritance; -Private collection Related works: -Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the String of Her Leotard, model in pigmented wax, plasticine, metal frame, cork, on a wooden base, 43.2 x 20.6 x 20.1 cm, formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Inv. No. 1999.80.4; -Edgar Degas, Dancer Tying the Drawstring of Her Leotard, bronze No. 33 MODEL, bears the “DEGAS” stamp inscribed in the wax prior to casting, bears the foundry mark “CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD," and bears the inscription "33/MODELE" on the base, 43.2 x 18.1 x 12.9 cm, Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum, inv. no. M.1977.02.14.S; Other bronze examples cataloged in museums - Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the Cord of Her Leotard, bronze, H.42.5, with an incised signature stamp “Degas,” numbered “33 A” and bearing the foundry’s stamp “A.A. Hébrard/ Lost-wax,” New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 29.100.405; - Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the String of Her Leotard, bronze, with an intaglio signature stamp “Degas,” numbered “33 B” and bearing the foundry’s stamp “A.A. Hébrard/Lost-wax,” San Diego Museum of Art, inv. no. 1991.12; - Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the String of Her Leotard, bronze, with an intaglio signature stamp “Degas,” numbered “33 D,” and bearing the foundry mark “A.A. Hébrard/Cire perdue,” Cincinnati Art Museum, inv. no. 1992.138; - Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the Cord of Her Leotard, bronze, dim. 41.91 × 21.27 × 15.4 cm, HER copy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, inv. no. M.2025.64.15; - Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the String of Her Leotard, bronze, H. 43 cm, with an intaglio signature stamp “Degas,” numbered “33 P” and bearing the foundry’s stamp “A.A. Hébrard/Cire perdue,” Paris, Musée d’Orsay, inv. no. RF 2079; - Edgard Degas, Dancer Tying the Cord of Her Leotard, bronze, H. 43 cm, with an intaglio signature stamp “Degas,” numbered 33 R and bearing the foundry’s stamp “A.A. Hébrard/ Cire perdue,” Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, inv. no. IN.2659; Bibliography: -Joseph S. Czestochowski, Anne Pingeot, *Degas Sculptures: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes*, Memphis, 2002; our copy is listed as “not located” and cataloged under no. 33 HER D, p. 187; -Edited by Jacqueline Delubac, *The Choice of Modernity: Rodin, Lam, Picasso, Bacon*, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, exhibition catalog for the exhibition held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon from March 7, 2014, to February 16, 2015, Actes Sud/Lyon Museum of Fine Arts, p. 232, and our work is shown in a photograph on p. 191. Related literature: -Edgar Degas, 1834–1917, *Original Wax Sculptures*, M. Knoedler and Company, Inc., New York, 1955, cat. 27; - John Rewald, *Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue*, New York, 1944, p. 81, no. XXVIII; - John Rewald, *Degas Sculpture*, London, 1957, p. 147, pls. 68–70, no. XXVIII; - Charles Millard, *The Sculpture of Edgar Degas*, Princeton, 1976, pp. 24 and 37, nos. 55 and 68, fig. 84; - Anne Pingeot, Franck Horvat, *Degas, Sculptures*, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1991, model cataloged as no. 15, p. 159; - Sara Campbell, “A Catalog of Degas’s Bronzes,” in *Apollo*, no. 142, 1995, p. 27; -Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour, Shelley Sturman, *Degas in the Norton Simon Museum: Nineteenth-Century Art*, vol. II, Norton Simon Foundation, 2009, no. 69 (model), no. 71, pp. 369–371; -Edited by S. Glover Lindsay, Daphne S. Barbour, and Shelley G. Sturman, *Edgar Degas Sculpture*, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Princeton University Press, 2010, entry 22, pp. 164–168; -Edited by Bruno Gaudichon and Catherine Chevillot, *Degas the Sculptor: An Exceptional Off-Site Exhibition*, exhibition catalog, Roubaix, La Piscine—André Diligent Museum of Art and Industry, October 8, 2010–January 15, 2011, Paris, Gallimard, 2010, pp. 192–193; -Gregory Hedberg, *The Degas Plasters: Groundbreaking Revelations about Degas’s Sculpture and the Hébrard Bronzes*, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, 2023, pl. 33, pp. 302–303. - M. Knoedler and Company, Inc., *Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures*, London, New York, 1955, cat. 27 This bronze sculpture, conventionally titled *Dancer Tying the String of Her Leotard*, is among the most
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