PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SAM JOSEFOWITZ
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

A Singer

Price realised USD 5,040
Estimate
USD 3,000 – USD 5,000
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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)

A Singer

Price realised USD 5,040
Price realised USD 5,040
Details
EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
A Singer
the original copper printing plate, cancelled, 1877-1878, scratch numbered ‘XXV’ on the reverse
Overall: 6 3⁄8 x 4 ¾ in. (162 x 121 mm.)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), Paris; possibly acquired from the artist circa 1910.
Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris; acquired from the estate of the above.
A. Martinez, Cannes.
With Frank Richard Perls (1910-1975), New York.
With Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007); acquired from the above.
Samuel Josefowitz (1921-2015); presumably acquired from the above.
Literature
see Delteil 25; Reed & Shapiro 34
B. S. Shapiro, S. W. Reed, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, exh. cat., Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and London, Hayward Gallery, 1984, p. 264-66 (this plate cited; not illustrated).

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