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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 24, 2015 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | PHYSIONOMIE DE CRIMINEL |
Works on Paper
47.8 x 63 cm (18.82 x 24.8 in)
pastel on paper mounted on the artist's board
signed Degas (lower right); stamped Atelier Degas on the reverse of the artist's board
Estate of the artist (sold: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Atelier Edgar Degas, 2ème Vente, 11th-13th December 1918, lot 200)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Private Collection, France (sold: Palais d'Orsay, Paris, Tableaux Modernes. Collection de Monsieur D. et à divers amateurs, 22nd March 1979, lot 11)
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired in 1979)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1979)
Thence by descent to the present owners,
Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, 6ème exposition de peinture des Impressionnistes, 1881, no. 18
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Degas, 1975, no. 20, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (titled Au tribunal. Deux prévenus)
Zurich, Kunsthaus & Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Degas, die Porträts, 1994-95, no. 161, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 46. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. Identità - Alterità, 1995, no. II 136, illustrated in the catalogue
Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum & Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Degas and the Little Dancer, 1998, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Crime et châtiment, 2010, no. 406, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Un Domino, ‘Echos de Paris’, in Le Gaulois, 3rd April 1881, mentioned p. 2
Henry Havard, ‘L’Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in Le Siècle, 3rd April 1881, mentioned
Gustave Geffroy, ‘L’Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in La Justice, 4th April 1881, mentioned
'Echos du jour', in La Presse, 4th April 1881
Vernay, ‘Les Impressionnistes’, in Le Soir, 4th April 1881, mentioned
Gustave Gœtschy, ‘Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in Le Voltaire, 5th April 1881, mentioned
Gonzague-Privat, ‘L’Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in L’Evénement, 5th April 1881, mentioned
André Michel, 'Exposition des artistes indépendants', in Le Parlement, 5th April 1881, mentioned
‘Echos de Paris’, in L’Opinion, 5th April 1881, mentioned
Auguste Dalligny, ‘Les Indépendants: Sixième Exposition’, in Le Journal des arts, 8th April 1881, mentioned
Armand Silvestre, ‘Sixième Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in L’Estafette, 11th April 1881, mentioned
Enjoiras, ‘Causerie artistique: Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in L’Intransigeant, 12th April 1881, mentioned
'La Petite République française', in Petite Chronique, 14th April 1881, mentioned
Antony Valabrègue, ‘Beaux-Arts: L’Exposition des impressionnistes’, in La Revue littéraire et artistique, 15th April 1881, mentioned
Louis Enault, ‘Chronique’, in Moniteur des arts, 15th April 1881, mentioned
Palette, ‘Les Expositions paticulières’, in Paris-Moderne, vol. I, no. 4, 15th April 1881, mentioned
Charles Ephrussi, ‘Exposition des Artistes Indépendants’, in La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 16th April 1881, mentioned
Armand Silvestre, ‘Le Monde des Arts: Sixième Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in La Vie Moderne, 16th April 1881, mentioned
Gustave Geffroy, ‘L’Exposition des artistes indépendants’, in La Justice, 19th April 1881, mentioned
Elie de Mont, ‘L’Exposition du boulevard des Capucines’, in La Civilisation, 21st April 1881, mentioned
Henry Trianon, ‘Sixième Exposition de peinture par un groupe d’artistes: 35, boulevard des Capucines’, in Le Constitutionnel, 24th April 1881, mentioned
Comtesse Louise, ‘Lettres familières sur l’art: Salon de 1881’, in La France nouvelle, 1st-2nd May 1881, mentioned
Jules Claretie, ‘La Vie à Paris: Les Artistes indépendants’, in La Vie à Paris: 1881, 1881, mentioned
Victor Champier, ‘La Société des artistes indépendants’, in L’Année artistique: 1881, Paris, 1882
Joris-Karl Huysmans, ‘L’Exposition des indépendants en 1881’, in L’Art moderne, Paris, 1883, mentioned
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, no. 639, illustrated p. 361
The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886 (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. & M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1986, fig. 6, illustrated p. 342
Douglas Druick, 'La petite danseuse et les criminels: Degas moraliste?', in Degas inédit, Paris, 1988, fig. 2, illustrated p. 226 (as dating from 1880-81)
Robert Gordon & Andrew Forge, Degas, New York, 1988, illustrated p. 119
Degas (exhibition catalogue), Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada & New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988-89, fig. 104, illustrated p. 210
Henri Loyrette, Degas, Paris, 1991, discussed pp. 387-394
Jean Sutherland Boggs & Anne Maheux, Degas Pastels, London, 1992, no. 30, illustrated in colour p. 99
Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, San Francisco, 1996, vol. I, no. 18, listed p. 326; vol. II, no. VI-18, illustrated p. 190
Harvey Buchanan, 'Edgar Degas and Ludovic Lepic: an Impressionist Friendship', in Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, Cleveland, 1997, vol. II, fig. 43, illustrated p. 84
Carol M. Armstrong, A Degas Sketchbook, 2000, fig. 16, illustrated p. 57
John House, Impressionism: Paint and Politics, New Haven & London, 2004, mentioned p. 138
Bernard Granger (ed.), La psychiatrie à l'épreuve de la justice, France, 2011, illustrated in colour p. 116
