Artist:
Edgar Degas
Artwork:
Femme Sessuyant Les Pieds
Size:
54.8 x 62 cm
Medium:
Pastel on joined paper laid down on board
Creation year:
1893
Marks:
Stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
Category:
Paintings
Artwork details :
Drawn circa 1893
Provenance:
Estate of the artist; First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 190; Sommer collection, Paris; Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin; Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne (by 1927); Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the previous, 1967); The Hon. David Bathurst, London (1989); Private collection; sale, Christie's, New York, 5 May 1998, lot 46
Exhibition history:
Lucerne, Galerie Thannhauser, Maitres francais du XIXe et XXe siecles, 1927, p. 50, no. 69 (illustrated, p. 51); Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin, January-February 1927, p. 50, no. 69 (illustrated, p. 51); Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Autour de l'Impressionnisme, June-July 1966, no. 7 (illustrated in color); Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Impressionnistes: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Pissarro, Cezanne, October-November 1967, no. 8 (illustrated in color)