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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 7, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 57 | $****** - ****** | Deux danseuses aux corsages jaunes |
Works on Paper
82.5 x 68.6 cm (32.48 x 27.01 in)
pastel on paper laid down on board
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; lower left)
Estate of the artist
First sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 May 1918, lot 205. Paul Rosenberg, Paris. Samuel Courtauld, London (acquired from the above, 1924). Paul Rosenberg, Paris. Wildenstein et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 1930). Royan Middleton, Aberdeen (acquired from the above, November 1944). Thomas Agnews & Sons, Ltd., London. Private collection, England. The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (by 1985). Acquired from the above by the present owner.
New York, Rockefeller Center, Dance International 1900-1937: Exhibit of Arts Relating to the Dance, November 1937-January 1938, no. 620. London, The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), Important XIX and XX Century Works of Art, June-July 1985, p. 14, no. 6 (illustrated in color, p. 15).
R. Sydney Glover, ed., Apollo, A Journal of the Arts, London, August 1925, vol. 2, p. 64 (illustrated). J.-B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas, London, 1927, p. 50 (illustrated in color, pl. 55; titled Deux danseuses: Corsages jaunes). L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, no. 207 (illustrated; dated circa 1890-1900). P.A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1964, vol. III, p. 810, no. 1408 (illustrated, p. 811). F. Russoli and F. Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, p. 137, no. 1145 (illustrated). R. Gordon and A. Forge, Degas, New York, 1988, p. 217 (illustrated in color). J. Sutherland Boggs et al, Degas, exh. cat., New York, 1988, p. 592 (illustrated, fig. 331; dated circa 1905-1910). J. House and J. Murdoch et al, Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron and Collector, London, 1994, pp. 23 and 221 (illustrated, p. 24, fig. 27).
