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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Star
    Edgar Degas. The Star, 1879/81. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00003070

    The Star

    by Edgar Degas

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right, in brown patel: "Degas"

    Provenance

    Private collection, Paris, [Browse, 1949]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 1919, lot 76. Roger G. Gompel, by 1924-at least 1937 [Paris 1924; Paris 1937]. Cesar de Hauke, New York [Lemoisne 1946]. Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York [Lemoisne 1946]. Mr. and Mrs. Diego Suarez, New York, by 1939 [old label removed and now in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Mrs Diego Suarez to the Art Institute, 1980.

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Degas," April 12-May 2, 1924, cat. 152. Paris, Bernheim-Jeune and Co., "Cent ans de Théâtre," May 1936, cat. 28. Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Degas," March-April 1937, cat. 113. New York, Carroll Carstairs, "The 1870s in France," 1938. New York, Jacques Seligmann Gallery, "The Stage," April 3-22, 1939, cat. 18. New York, "Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York’s World’s Fair," 1939. The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Works by Edgar Degas," February 5-March 9, 1947, cat. 37. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "A Loan Exhibition of Degas for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary," 1949, cat. 52. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Exhibition of Works by Edgar Degas," 1958. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 94-95, cat. 41 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

    Publications

    Alfred Frankfurter, "Panorama of a Great Decade: The 1870s," Art News (December 3, 1938), p. 11 (ill.). Connoisseurs of the World: Being an International Biographical Dictionary of Connoisseurs, Collectors, and Patrons of Art (London, 1943), p. 82. Denis Rouart, Degas, à la Recherche de sa Technique (Paris, 1945), p. 17. P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre (Paris, 1946), no. 598 (ill.). Lillian Browse, Degas’s Dancers (London, 1949), no. 58. Fiorella Minervino and Franco Russoli, L’opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 751 (ill.). Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 45-46, 49 (ill. detail), 92 (ill.), and 109, pl. 21.

    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
    1879/81
    Medium
    Pastel on cream wove paper, edge mounted on board
    Dimensions
    73.3 × 57.4 cm (28 7/8 × 22 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pastel
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Bequest of Mrs. Diego Suarez
    Accession no.
    1980.414

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