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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 21, 2022 | Christie's | New York | The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 2 | Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Day Sale | 165 | $****** - ****** | Femme nue couchée | |||
Jun 28, 1988 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Paintings & Sculpture, Part I | 13 | Estimates not disclosed | Femme nue couchee | |||
May 15, 1986 | Christie's | New York | N/A | 108 | Estimates not disclosed | Femme nue couchee |
Works on Paper
32.7 x 41.6 cm (12.88 x 16.38 in)
pastel over monotype on paper
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left); with atelier stamp (Lugt 657; on the reverse)
Estate of the artist; First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 148.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.
William Shand Kydd, Esq., London (by 1967).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (May 1968).
William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, June 1973).
Private collection, Buenos Aires; sale, Christie's, New York, 15 May 1986, lot 108.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1988, lot 13.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty at the above sale.
Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Degas Monotypes , April-June 1968, no. 138 (illustrated; dated circa 1883-1885).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Water Colors, Drawings, Gouaches , 1969, no. 10 (dated circa 1883-1885).
Stockholm, Svenska-Franska Konstgalleriet, Degas: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen , December 1969, no. 2 (titled Nu couché ).
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century , October 1980-March 1981, p. 102, no. 25 (illustrated in color; dated circa 1883-1885 and titled Reclining Nude at Rest ).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago , July-September 1984, p. 144 (illustrated, fig. 68-2; dated circa 1883-1885).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Degas: A Strange New Beauty , March-April 2016, p. 155, no. 101 (illustrated in color).
P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre , Paris, 1946, vol. III, p. 426, no. 752 (illustrated, p. 427; dated circa 1883-1885).
E.P. Janis, "The Role of the Monotype in the Working Method of Degas - II," The Burlington Magazine , vol. 109, no. 767, February 1967, p. 80, no. 39 (illustrated; dated circa 1883-1885).
E.P. Janis, Degas Monotypes , Cambridge, 1968, no. 138 (illustrated; dated circa 1883-1885).
J. Adhémar and F. Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes , London, 1974, p. 282 (dated circa 1883-1885).
?J.S. Boggs, ed., Degas, exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1988, p. 412 (illustrated, fig. 223; dated circa 1888)?.
R. Thomson, Degas: The Nudes , London, 1988, p. 79, no. 69 (illustrated in color; titled Female Nude Reclining on a Bed ).
R. Pelling, The Art of the Erotic , New York, 2017, p. 83 (illustrated in color).
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Femme nue couchée
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left); with atelier stamp (Lugt 657; on the reverse)
pastel over monotype on paper
12 7/8 x 16 3/8 in. (32.8 x 41.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1888-1890
