DEGAS, Edgar

Paris 1834 - Paris 1917

Maker: Hébrard, A.A.

[8/MODELE] Danseuse au repos, les mains sur les hanches, jambe gauche en avant

[8/MODELE] Dancer at Rest, Hands on Hips, Left Leg Forward

c. 1878, cast c. 1919

bronze, No. 08, Modèle cast

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 15 ¹⁄₁₆ x 8 ³⁄₄ x 4 ¹⁄₈ in.

signed: degas
inscribed: 8/MODELE
stamp CIRE / PERDUE / A.A. HEBRARD

Acc. No.: M.1977.02.20.S

Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation

Photo credit: Norton Simon Art Foundation

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Pasadena, California, Norton Simon Museum

www.nortonsimon.org

Provenance

• Paris, the founder Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard (1865-1937)
• Paris, Nelly Hébrard (1904-1985), his daughter
• 1976, London, Lefevre Gallery
• 1977, Purchase

Bibliography

• 2002 Czestochowski and Pingeot
  Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures. Catalogue raisonné of the bronzes, [New York], The Torch Press, and [Memphis], International Arts, 2002, p. 136-137 (revised edition in 2010)
• 2009 Campbell
  Sara Campbell, Richard Kendall, Daphne Barbour, Shelley Sturman, Degas in the Norton Simon Museum. Nineteenth Century Art, vol. II, general editor: Sara Campbell, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009

Exhibitions

• 1976 London
  The Complete Sculptures of Degas, London, The Lefevre Gallery, 18 November-21 December 1976, catalogue and introduction by John Rewald

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