Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006051Study of a Singer
by Edgar Degas
Provenance
Pietro Romanelli, Paris; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 21, 1936, lot 6. Wildenstein Gallery, London and New York. Sold by Grace Borgenicht, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, July 1, 1980; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein, A Comprehensive Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors, 1958, cat. 59. New York, Wildenstein, Degas: Loan Exhibition, 1960, cat. 90. David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, Alumni Who Collect, Volume 1: Drawings from the 16th Century to the Present, 1982, pp. 48, 51, cat. 55, pl. 22. Art Institute of Chicago, Degas in the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984, suppl. no. 11. Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 65 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 141, GC 96.
Publications
Stuart Preston, "Curtain Calls of '57-'58, 'New York Times'", June 1, 1958, Arts sec. (ill.). François Borne and Alan Wintermute, "Old Master Drawings and Paintings" (Artemis/C.G. Boerner, 2004), cat. 36. Jean Sutherland Boggs eet al., "Degas", exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), p. 294.
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
- 1878/80
- Medium
- Charcoal and fabricated black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on greenish gray wove paper, perimeter mounted to millboard
- Dimensions
- 49.2 × 63.7 cm (19 3/8 × 25 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.842
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