DEGAS, Edgar

Paris 1834 - Paris 1917

[71/N] Femme sortant du bain, fragment

[71/N] Woman Getting Out of Bath, fragment

c. 1896-1911, cast 1919-1932

bronze

statuette

Dimensions (HxWxD): 16 ¹⁄₂ x 6 ¹⁄₂ x 7 ³⁄₄ in.

Acc. No.: 66.1287

Credit Line: Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Photo credit: 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

© Artist : public domain

© Artist : public domain

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

www.hirshhorn.si.edu

Provenance

• c. 1922-1955, Estate of the Artist
• 1955-9 November 1957 New York, Peridot Gallery
• 9 November 1957-17 May 1966, New York, Joseph H. Hirshhorn
• 1966, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Bibliography

• Museum's website, 2009
• 1944 Rewald
  JOHN REWALD, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue, New York, Pantheon, 1944, no. 59, p. 27, ills. pp. 124-125. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
• 1956 Rewald
  JOHN REWALD, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1956, no. 59, p. 155, pl. 79. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
• 1962 Canaday
  JOHN CANADAY, "Museum Director Solves a Problem", New York Times, 17 August 1962, ill. p. 25
• 1974 Lerner
  ABRAM LERNER et al., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1974, pp. 102, 680, ill. 125
• 1990 Rewald
  JOHN REWALD, Degas's complete sculpture, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1990, no. 59, pp. 156-57
• 1991 Pingeot
  ANNE PINGEOT, Degas Sculptures, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1991, no. 65, p. 184
• 1995 Campbell
  Sara Campbell, "Degas' Bronzes - Introduction and a Catalogue," Apollo, vol. 142, no. 402, August 1995, no. 71, N, p. 46
• 2002 Czestochowski and Pingeot
  Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, Memphis, International Arts, 2002, p. 260-261

Exhibitions

• Museum's website, 2009
  
  1959 Detroit
  Sculpture in Our Time: Collected by Joseph H. Hirshhorn, DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, 5 May-23 August 1959, no. 27 (not on tour)
  
  1962-1963 New York
  Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, New York, SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 114
  
  1974-1975 Washington
  Inaugural Exhibition, Washington, DC., Smithsonian Institution, HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, 1 October 1974-15 September 1975
  
  2011 Tampa
  Degas: Form, Movement and the Antique, TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, 12 March-19 June 2011

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