Edgar DEGAS (Paris, 1834 - Paris, 1917) - Lot 9

Edgar DEGAS (Paris, 1834 - Paris, 1917) * Fillette portant des fleurs dans son tablier, circa 1860-1862. Oil on canvas, stamped Degas sale lower right. 73.3 x 55.7 cm. Provenance : - Atelier Degas. - Degas sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 1st sale, May 6, 1918, no. 94, repr.; Max Dearly collection, Paris. - Ernest Gutzwiller collection, Basel; Sotheby's sale, London, January 24, 1996, no. 1. - Hampel Kunstauktionnen sale, Munich, September 26, 2019, no. 1445. - Hampel Kunstauktionnen sale, Munich, July 2, 2020, no. 335. Exhibition: Degas, Galerie Schmit, Paris, May 15-June 21, 1975, no. 4, repr. p. 9. Bibliography: - Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, vol. II, p. 43, no. 81. - Jacques Lassaigne & Fiorella Minervino, Degas, Paris, 1990, p. 88, no. 52. - M. Schulman, Catalogue raisonné numérique d'Edgar Degas, n° MS-855 Estimate on request.