Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Autoportrait
huile sur papier marouflé sur toile
27.7 x 20.2 cm. (11 x 8 in.)
Exécuté vers 1856
Provenance
Jeanne Fèvre, Nice.
Collection particulière, France; vente, Me Rheims, Paris, 22 mars 1955, lot 69 (titré 'Degas par lui-même').
Maurice Loncle, Paris.
Edmond Cormier-Thierry-Delanoue, Montfort-l’Amaury (avant 1960).
Puis par descendance.
Literature
J. Chazade, 'Degas : La fin des chefs-d'œuvre', in L'Œil, no. 242, septembre 1975, p. 52 (illustré).
P. Brame et T. Reff, Degas et son œuvre, A supplement, New York et Londres, 1984, p. 32, no. 29 (illustré, p. 33).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Portraits français XIXe et XXe siècles, mai-juin 1974, p. 14, no. 14 (illustré; erronément décrit comme 'carton').
Paris, Galerie Schmit, Degas, mai-juin 1975, p. 6, no. 3 (illustré en couleurs, p. 7).
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kyoto, Musée de la Ville de Tokyo et Fukuoka, Centre Culturel de Fukuoka, Degas, septembre 1976-janvier 1977, no. 2 (illustré en couleurs; titré 'Autoportrait de Degas').
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