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Woman Stretching

Object Details

Artist
Edgar Degas, French, b. Paris, 1834–1917
Date
(c. 1896-1911)/(cast c. 1919-1932)
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
14 5/16 x 8 3/16 x 6 1/16 in. (36.4 x 20.9 x 15.3 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
Accession Number
66.1300

Hotel Drouet, Paris (per Helen Serger, director of La Boetie)
La Boetie, New York
Paula Mailman Cooper, New York, to 28 March 1962
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 28 March 1962-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Modern Sculpture from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection," 3 October 1962-6 January 1963, no. 118.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975.
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, 1955), no. 64, p. 27, ills. p. 129. (Illustration may not be HMSG's cast.)
REWALD, JOHN. Degas Sculpture, The Complete Works (New York: Abrams, 1956), no. 64, p. 156, p. 66/67.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Abrams, 1974), pp. 680-681, ill. p. 101, fig. 127.
REWALD, JOHN. Degas's complete sculpture (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy FIne Arts, 1990), no. 64, pp. 166-67.
PINGEOT, ANNE. Degas Sculpture (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1991), no. 66, p. 184.
CAMPBELL, SARA. "A catalogue of Degas' bronzes," Apollo 142/402 (August 1995), no. 53, E, p. 36.

Signature
Right side of socle, near left foot: Degas
Inscriptions
On socle rear left side, near right foot: CIRE/ PERDUE/ AA HEBARDOn socle rear left side, near right foot (to right of above): 53/ E

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Edition

5/22 (modele 53)

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