Edgar Degas

French, 1834–1917

Cheval au galop sur le pied droit, le pied gauche arrière seul touchant terre ; jockey monté sur le cheval

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Medium: Sculpture, Bronze
Size: 24.5 x 31.8 cm. (9.6 x 12.5 in.)
Markings: Stamped Degas, numbered 25/M, inscribed with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A HEBRARD (on the base); numbered 35/M (under the jockey's foot)

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HELENE BAILLY

Paris

About this Artwork

Movement: Modern Art
Provenance: Galerie d'Art Moderne, Paris
Private Collection (acquired circa 1950)
Thence by descent to the previous owner
Exhibitions: 01/09/2024–03/02/2024 150 D'IMPRESSIONNISMES
11/25/2021–01/08/2022 BETWEEN FALL & WINTER
Yverdon, Hôtel de Ville & Zurich, Kunsthaus, De Daumier à Picasso, 1956, nos. 29 & 35
Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso,1964, no. 17
Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, 1967, no. 14
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kyoto City Museum of Art and Fukuoka Prefectural Cultural Center, Edgar Degas, 1976- 1977, no. 85
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Fantaisie équestre, 1982, no. 99
Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, L'Impressionnisme dans les collections romandes, 1984, no. 33
Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Animaux d'art et d'histoire. Bestiaire des collections genevoises, 2000, no. 274
Francfort, Städel Museum, En passant. Impressionism in sculpture, 2020, no. 47, illustrated in the catalogue np.
Literature: John Rewald, Edgar Degas, Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, New York, 1944, another example illustrated p. 20
John Rewald, Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works, Zurich, 1957, another example illustrated p. 143
Franco Russoli & Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Degas, Milan, 1970, another example illustrated p. 144
Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton, 1976, another example illustrated p. 14
John Rewald, Degas's Complete Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, San Francisco, 1990, pp. 70-71
Anne Pingeot & Frank Horvat, Degas Sculptures, Paris, 1991, p. 176
Joseph S. Czestochwski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue Raisonne of the Bronzes, Memphis, 2002, another example illustrated p.170

Description

Original wax model executed in 1865-1881; the bronze version cast later in an edition of 22 numbered A to T and 2 casts reserved for the heirs of the artist and for the founder Hebrard.

HELENE BAILLY

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