Bulletin 3 (II:1), 1964

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Danseuses à la barre by Degas

by Jean Sutherland Boggs,
author, curator, The Art Gallery of Toronto

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Notes

1 Catalogue des Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier dont la 1re Vente...aura lieu, à Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, les 6, 7, 8 mai, 1918, no.118.

2 See R. H. Hubbard, The National Gallery of Canada Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, II, Modern European Schools, Ottawa, 1959, p. 20 for the correct provenance. The pastel was no. 62 in the I. Seligmann Sale in January, 1921.

3 P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, Paris, 1946, no. 808.

4 L. Browse, Degas Dancers, London, 1949, no.221.

5 Lemoisne 809, 810,811 (Browse no.219 and plate 6), 812; l Vente: 332 (Fig. 7); Il Vente: 262; 111 Vente: 199 (close to Lemoisne 812 and Lemoisne 1220).

6 Lemoisne 807, Browse 220.

7 P. Iamot, Degas, Paris 1924 for plate 73a (Lemoisne 812).

8 R. Pickvance, "Degas's Dancers: 1872-6," The Burlington Magazine, June 1963, pp. 256-266.

9 See L. Venturi, Les Archives de l'Impressionnisme, Paris-New York, 1939, II, pp. 269-270.

10 See I. S. Boggs, "Degas Notebooks at the Bibliothèque Nationale III: Group C (1863-1886)", The Burlington Magazine, July 1958, p. 246. The notebook is B. N. carnet 327 d. rés., 6.

11 Lemoisne 765, 766bis, 767, 813, 814, 815, 816, 866, 868, 870, 870bis, 871, 872, 874, 876, 897, 1009, 1145, 1146, 1148, 1149, 1175, 1177, 1178, 1421.

12 Lemoisne 767, dated 1884.

13 Lemoisne 1149, dated 1894.

14 Lemoisne 379 (c. 1875-76), Browse no.13 (c. 1875).

15 Lemoisne 408 (c. 1876-77), Browse no.46 (1876-77).

16 Lemoisne, I, p. 200.

17 IV Vente: 177, and Il Vente: 221, 2e; neither in Lemoisne or Browse.

18 Lemoisne 766bis, private collection, New York.

19 Lemoisne 868.

20 Lemoisne 814, the Louvre.

21 For Lemoisne 815: see Il Vente: 323.

22 Lemoisne 765, 815, 816, 872, 874, 876.

23 Lemoisne 1145, Bostwick collection.

24 Lemoisne 767, private collection, Detroit.

25 Lemoisne 1148.

26 Lemoisne 1146.

27 Lemoisne 1176.

28 Lemoisne 1177,1178.

29 Lemoisne 1149.

30 Lemoisne 1103

31 Browse 205

32 Lemoisne 1421

33 Lemoisne 1437-1444 (1904) and 1450-52 (1905)

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