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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 135 | $****** - ****** | Les Entraineurs |
Works on Paper
38.4 x 88.6 cm (15.13 x 34.88 in)
pastel on paper
signed Degas (lower left)
Jean-Paul Aubry, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 May 1897, no. 44 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Paul Cassirer, Paris and Berlin (acquired from the above on 30 March 1899)
Professor Emil Heilbuth, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin and Montreux
M. Knoedler & Co., Paris and London
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, Cleveland (acquired by 1923)
Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired from the above circa 1958)
Ronne and Joseph S. Wohl Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1967)
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 2000)
Driscoll Babcock Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above on 11 August 2015 by the present owner
Berlin, Bruno and Paul Cassirer Gallerie, Ausstellung von Werken von Max Liebermann, H.G.E. Degas, Constantin Meunier , 1898, no. 78
London, M. Knoedler & Co., Nineteenth Century French Painters , 1923, no. 14
The Cleveland Museum of Art, French Art Since 1800 , 1929, no. 167
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition , 1936, no. 270
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Works by Edgar Degas , 1947, no. 42 (dated circa 1880)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paintings from Private Collections , 1967
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Degas' Racing World , 1968, no. 8 (dated circa 1880)
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Edgar Degas Exhibition , 1978, no. 21 (dated circa 1880)
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Degas at the Races , 1998, no. 97, pp. 158-159 and 258
Winona, Minnesota, Minnesota Marine Art Museum (on loan 2015-2022)
Camille Mauclair; Georges Grappe; Gustave Kahn, Modern French Masters , London, 1908, p. 20, p. 12, illustrated
Georges Grappe, Edgar Degas , Paris, 1909, p. 12, illustrated
Georges Grappe, L'Art et le beau , Paris, 1911, p. 12, illustrated
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art , vol. 16, no. 9, 1929, p. 167 (titled The Race Horses )
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre , vol. II, Paris, 1946, no. 597bis, p. 337, illustrated (dated circa 1880)
Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre , Paris, 1954, pl. 89, illustrated
Paul-André Lemoisne, “Degas: Peintre des chevaux,” Le jardin des arts , no. 9, 1955, p. 516, illustrated
Jean Bouret, Degas , Paris, 1965, p. 227, illustrated
Aaron Scharf, Art and Photography , Middlesex, 1974, p. 206 (dated circa 1880)
Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'Opera completa di Degas , Milan, 1970, no. 689, p. 118, illustrated (titled Horsemen [Cavalieri] )
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas , Paris, 1974, no. 689, p. 118, illustrated
Sophie Monneret, L'Impressionnisme et son époque: dictionnaire international illustré , vol. III, Paris, 1980, p. 217
Bernard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, eds., Kunstsalon Cassirer , vol. I, Wädenswil, 2011, pp. 65 and 485, illustrated
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
Les Entraineurs
signed Degas (lower left)
pastel on paper laid down on card affixed to canvas
15 ⅛ by 34 ⅞ in. 38.4 by 88.6 cm.
Executed circa 1892-94.
