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EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Autoportrait, vers sa vingt-et-unième année
pencil on paper
5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (14.1 x 10.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1855
Provenance
The artist's estate.
Odette De Gas & Roland Nepveu, Paris, by descent from the above.
Hélène, Jean & Arlette Nepveu-Degas, and thence by descent; sale, Collection Nepveu-Degas, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 December 1994, lot 15.
Jan Krugier, Geneva, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2014, lot 101.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Nepveu-Degas, La Jeune Parque: Huit sonnets d’Edgar Degas, Paris, 1946 (illustrated on the frontispiece).
P. Velery, Degas, Danse, Dessin, Paris, 1965, no. 98, p. 250 (illustrated fig. 98; dated ‘circa 1854’).
Exhibited
Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne-Krugier-Poniatowski, May - August 1999, no. 100, p. 214 (illustrated p. 215); this exhibition later travelled to:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, The Timeless Eye, Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne-Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, September - December 1999, no. 116, p. 246 (illustrated on the cover; illustrated again p. 247);
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin tiempo: Dibugos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Collección Jan y Marie-Anne-Krugier Poniatowski, February - May 2000, no. 128, p. 288 (illustrated p. 289);
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin: Collection Jan et Marie-Anne-Krugier-Poniatowski, March - June 2002, no. 113, p. 250 (illustrated p. 251);
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge - von Rembrandt bis Picasso: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne-Krugier-Poniatowski, July - October 2007, no. 112, p. 240 (illustrated p. 241).
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Degas: A Passion for Perfection, October 2017 - January 2018, no. 15, p. 243 (illustrated full page p. 45; illustrated again fig. 24, p. 48); this exhibition later travelled to Denver Art Museum, February - May 2018.
Post Lot Text
Theodore Reff has stated that, in his opinion, this work is by the hand of Edgar Degas