Seated Woman Wiping Left Hip

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Object Details

Artist
Edgar Degas, French, b. Paris, 1834–1917
Date
(c. 1896-1911/cast 1919-1924)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
17 7/8 X 18 3/4 X 11 1/2 IN. (45.5 X 47.5 X 29.3 CM.)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.1301

Galerie Hébrard, Paris
David Bright, Beverly Hills, California, to 1963
Marlborough Fine Art, London, to 18 February 1963
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 18 February 1963-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
IONA COLLEGE, New Rochelle, New York. "Creative Arts Festival," 1-4 April 1964.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (organizer). "The Human Figure Interpreted: Modern Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum." TOUR: TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM, China, 25 March-28 May 1995, p. 54, ill. p. 55; separate catalogue for Japan, no. 7, p. 53, ill. p. 54. TOUR: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, SHIGA, Otsu, Japan, 1 July-6 August 1995; ODAKYU MUSEUM, Tokyo, 9 August-28 August 1995; IWAKI CITY ART MUSEUM, 23 September-5 November 1995; TAKAMATSU CITY MUSEUM OF ART, 10 November-10 December 1995.
FONDATION BEYELER, Riehen, Switzerland. “Degas: The Late Work” 30 September 2012-27 January 2013.

REWALD, JOHN. Degas: Works in Sculpture, A Complete Catalogue (New York: Pantheon, 1944), no. 71, p. 28, ill. pp. 138-39. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
REWALD, JOHN. Degas Sculpture: The Complete Works (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1956), no. 71, p. 157, ill. 83. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
MILLARD, CHARLES. The Sculpture of Edgar Degas (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976), fig. 137, pp. 26, 109 (not HMSG cast).
REWALD, JOHN. Degas's complete sculpture (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1990), no. 71, pp. 180-81.
PINGEOT, ANNE. Degas Sculptures (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1991), no. 67, p. 185.
CAMPBELL, SARA. "A catalogue of Degas' bronzes," Apollo 142/402 (August 1995), no. 54, E, p. 37.

Signature
Incised On Rt Side, Top Of Socle: Degas
Inscriptions
Back of socle, Right: CIRE/ PERDUE/ AA HEBRARD 54/E

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Edition

5/22 (54/e)

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