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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Two Dancers
    Edgar Degas. Two Dancers, c. 1893–98. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002752

    Two Dancers

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, lower right, in charcoal: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist; sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 4-5, 1918, first Degas estate sale, lot 129. Trotti, Paris [Lemoisne 1946]. Durand-Ruel, New York [Lemoisne 1946]. Amy McCormick (1880-1939), Chicago, by 1932 [Smith 1997]; by descent to her husband, Col. Robert R. McCormick (1880-1955), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 173-175, cat. 83 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. London, National Gallery, "Degas: Beyond Impressionism," May 22-August 26, 1996, pp. 264-265, cat. 77 (ill.), cat. by Richard Kendall; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 28, 1996-January 5, 1997.

    Publications

    J.B. Manson, The Life and Work of Edgar Degas (London, 1927). P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre 3 (Paris, 1946-1948), no. 1017 (ill.). Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers (London, 1949), p. 404, no. 211 (ill.). Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago; A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 121. Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 44, no. 2G5. Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 97, 99, and 117 (ill.). Richard Kendall, Degas Beyond Impressionism (London, 1996), no. 77 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 57, 102 (ill.), and 110, pl. 31. Richard Norton Smith, The Colonel; The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick (Boston, 1997), p. 262. Joseph Czestochowski, Edgar Degas: The Complete Sculptures (2002).

    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
    c. 1893–98
    Medium
    Pastel and charcoal, with stumping and burnishing, on tracing paper, pieced and laid down on cardboard
    Dimensions
    70.5 × 53.6 cm (27 13/16 × 21 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Col. Robert R. McCormick to the Amy McCormick Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1942.458

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