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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Spanish Dance
    Edgar Degas. Spanish Dance, Modeled c. 1883, cast 1919–21. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001965

    Spanish Dance

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Marked: 45 / HER.D; DEGAS; CIRE PERDUE A.HERBRARD [Foundry mark]

    Provenance

    Commissioned by Edgar Degas’s heirs from the Hébrard Foundry, Paris, May 1918; René DeGas Family, Paris, by 1921 [see Czestochowski and Pingeot, p. 15]; by descent to the DeGas-Musson Family, New Orleans, before 1950 [see source cited above, p. 209]; sold by Gaston DeGas-Musson and the Musson Family to the Elkin and Albris Silberman Galleries, New York, January 19, 1950 [see source cited above; see also agreement of sale, January 19, 1950, DeGas-Musson Family Papers, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, copy in curatorial file]; sold by Silberman Galleries to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1950.

    Exhibition history

    New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, "Edgar Degas: His Family and Friends in New Orleans," 2 May – 16 June 1965, no. 25. Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago," 19 July – 23 September 1984, no. 73. Rutgers. The State University of New Jersey,Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. "Breaking the Mold: Sculpture in Paris from Daumier to Degas," 23 October 2005 - 15 March 2006. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage," July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

    Publications

    John Rewald, Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York, 1944), pp. 25, 103, no. 46. Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Purchases and Gifts," Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 44, 4 (November 1950), n. p. (ill.). New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Edgar Degas, 1834–1917: Original Wax Sculptures (1955), no. 62, fig. 62. John Rewald, Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York, 1957), p. 151, no. 46, pls. 34–35. Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 142, cat. S36. Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton, 1976), pp. 30, 35, 67, 102–04, 106, 111, figs. 69, 73. Anne Pingeot, Degas: Sculptures (Paris, 1991), pp. 170–71, no. 36. Sara Campbell, "A Catalogue of Degas’ Bronzes," Apollo 142, 402 (August 1995), pp. 38–39, no. 57. Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes (Memphis, 2002), pp. 232–33, no. 57.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
    Date
    Modeled c. 1883, cast 1919–21
    Medium
    Bronze
    Dimensions
    47 × 16.6 × 21.6 cm (18 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Sculpture
    Classification
    statuette
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Wirt D. Walker Endowment
    Accession no.
    1950.111

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