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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Dancer Stretching at the Bar
    Edgar Degas. Dancer Stretching at the Bar, 1877/80. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002290

    Dancer Stretching at the Bar

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right, in red pastel: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris [invoice]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 28, 1917, lot 73 (ill.). Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, to Martin Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, April 14, 1920 [invoice]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

    Exhibition history

    Minneapolis, Minn., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, " Exhibition of Modern Frnch Paintings," November 1921-January 1922. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture" June 1- November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 860. Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "Degas and The Dance," April 5-May 27, 1979, cat. 16 (ill.) The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 90-91, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, "Edgar Degas: Exploring Diminsions," August 12-October 9, 1994. Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, "Degas and the Little Dancer," February 7-May 3, 1998, p. 150, pl. 14, cat. by Richard Kendall, et. al.; traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; and the the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 4, 1998-January 3, 1999. Vienna, Albertina, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings", February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 114, 146, pl. 63, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.

    Publications

    Camille Mauclair, Edgar Degas, Revue de l'art (November 1903), p. 381 (ill.). Paul Jamot, Degas (Paris, 1924), p. 34. J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). Richard Kendall, Degas and the Little Dancer, no. 14 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 41-42, no. 2F6.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
    Date
    1877/80
    Medium
    Pastel with estompe on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    31.8 × 24 cm (12 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1229

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