
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002291Dancer Bending Forward
by Edgar Degas
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in black chalk: "Degas"
Provenance
Estate of the artist; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 6-8, 1918, First Degas estate sale, lot 376. Joseph Hessel, Paris, April 1920 [Chicago 1984]. Martin Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, by 1921 [see Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1921]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
Minneapolis, Minn., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, " Exhibition of Modern French Paintings," November 1921-January 1922. Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 862. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 12, cat. 12, pl. XV. Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Drawings and Pastels by Edgar Degas," March 30-April 30, 1947, cat. 12. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 104. New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, "Edgar Degas: His Family and Friends in New Orleans," 1965, cat. 6 (ill.). Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "Degas and The Dance," April 5-May 27, 1979, cat. 17 (ill.) Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 61-62, cat. 25 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Degas and the Ballet, Picturing Movement", September 17-December 11, 2011, pp. 116,117, cat. 41, cat. by Richard Kendall and Jill Devonyar.
Publications
"An Exhibition of Modern French Paintings," Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, X,8 (Nov. 1921), p. 59. J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers (London, 1949), p. 398, no. 191 (ill.). Dedorah Johnson, French Watercolor and Drawings from the Museum's Collection (Providence, R.I., 1975), pp. 46-47. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 43, no. 2F11. Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. 147 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 46, 93 (ill.), and 109, pl. 22. Sandy Brooke, Drawing as Expression, Concepts and Techniques (Englewood Cliffs, 2002), p. 8(ill.). Angela Wenzel, Adventures in Art: Degas-Zauber Des Tanzes (Prestel Verlag, 2002).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edgar Degas / French, 1834-1917
- Date
- 1874/79
- Medium
- Charcoal with stumping, heightened with white and yellow pastel with stumping, on blue laid paper ruled with charcoal
- Dimensions
- 46.2 × 30.4 cm (18 1/4 × 12 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1230
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