Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2016 - Jean Luc Baroni

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas
Paris 1834 - 1917
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Deux Études Pour Danseuses
Charcoal heightened with white on green paper. Stamped Degas at lower left and further stamped with the Atelier
mark on the reverse.
468 x 295 mm (18 3 /8 by 11 5 /8 in.)
Provenance: Estate of the artist (sold: Galerie Georges
Petit, Paris, Atelier Degas, 2ème Vente, 11 th -13 th December
1918, lot 227); Jules Strauss, Paris (sold: Galeries Georges
Petit, Paris, 15 th December 1932, lot 10); M. Bellier, Paris
(purchased at the above sale); Wildenstein & Co. Ltd.,
New York (acquired by 1949); Edwin C. Vogel, New York
(acquired by 1959); Acquavella Galleries, New York;
Acquired from the above by Jan Krugier in December
1988; The Jan Krugier sale, Sotheby’s, London, 5 th
February 2014, lot. 1.
Exhibited: New York, Wildenstein & Co., A Loan
Exhibition of Degas for the Benefit of the New York
Infirmary, 1949, no. 50, illustrated in the catalogue (titled
Dancer, Study for the ‘Rehearsal’ and as dating from
1879); New York, Wildenstein & Co., Drawings Through
Four Centuries, 1949, no. 53; Toledo, Museum of Art,
Degas Exhibition, 1950, no. 67; London, Wildenstein
& Co., The Art of Drawing: 1500-1950, 1953, no. 90,
illustrated in the catalogue; New York, M. Knoedler & Co.,
Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries, 1959, no. 73,
illustrated in the catalogue (titled Dancers); New York,
Jan Krugier Gallery, The Presence of Ingres, 1988, no. 8,
illustrated in the catalogue; Martigny, Fondation Pierre
Gianadda, Degas, 1993, no. 35, illustrated in colour in
the catalogue; Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght,
La Sculpture des Peintres, 1997, no. 14, illustrated in
colour in the catalogue; Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Linie, Licht und Schatten. Meisterzeichnungen und
Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-
Poniatowski, 1999, no. 102, illustrated in colour in the
catalogue; Venice, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye.
Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-
Poniatowski Collection, 1999, no. 118, illustrated
in colour in the catalogue; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-
Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y
Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-
Poniatowski, 2000, no. 129, illustrated in colour in
the catalogue; Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La
passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-
Poniatowski, 2002, no. 114, illustrated in colour in the
catalogue; Vienna, Albertina Museum, Goya bis Picasso.
Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne
Krugier-Poniatowski, 2005, no. 63, illustrated in colour
in the catalogue; Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das
Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke
aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-
Poniatowski, 2007, no. 114, illustrated in colour in the
catalogue; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Degas and
the Ballet: Picturing Movement, 2011, no. 8, illustrated
in colour in the catalogue.
Literature: Daniel Catton Rich, Degas, New York,
1953, no. 32, illustrated; François Daulte, Le dessin
français de Manet à Cézanne, Lausanne, 1954, illustrated
pl. 8; ‘Drawings of Seven Centuries at Knoedler’s New
York’, in Burlington Magazine, 1959, no. 54, illustrated
p. 351; The Pierpont Magazine Library, Drawings from
the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugène-Victor Thaw, New
York, 1985, vol. II, pp. 65-66; Robert Gordon & Andrew
Forge, Degas, Paris, 1988, illustrated p. 189 (as dating
from circa 1878-79).
1. Edgar Degas, The Rehearsal, The Fogg Art Museum, Massachusetts.
As a young apprentice at the École Nationale Supérieure
des Beaux-Arts in Paris Degas dreamed of drawing in
the style of Michelangelo and Raphael but, like his
contemporaries, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, and Morisot,
he lived in a very different age, imbued with rapid socioeconomic
change and industrial expansion. Through
copious paintings, drawings, pastels, sculptures, prints
and photographs, Degas sought to discover, or recover
a more complete reality, one that would encompass
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