Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Femme à la cigarette

Price realised USD 27,500
Estimate
USD 20,000 – USD 30,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

Femme à la cigarette

Price realised USD 27,500
Price realised USD 27,500
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Femme à la cigarette
with atelier stamp (Lugt 657; lower right)
monotype on paper laid down on Japan paper
Plate size: 3 1/8 x 2 ¾ in. (8 x 7 cm.)
Sheet size: 5 x 4 5/8 in. (12.8 x 11.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1880
Provenance
Estate of the artist; Vente d'estampes, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 22-23 November 1918, lot 287.
Gustave Pellet, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Maurice Exteens, Paris (acquired from the above).
Paul Brame and César de Hauke, Paris (acquired from the above).
Acquired by the present owner, circa 2000.
Literature
E.P. Janis, Degas Monotypes, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968, no. 250 (illustrated).
J. Adhémar and F. Cachin, Degas, The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes, New York, 1975, p. 272, no. 41.
S. Friedman, "On Smoke," Degas, A Strange Beauty, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, p. 102 (illustrated in color, fig. 2).
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum, Degas, March 1958, p. 83, no. 92 (illustrated, p. 82).

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