Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Femme assise dans un fauteuil s'essuyant l'aisselle gauche

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Femme assise dans un fauteuil s'essuyant l'aisselle gauche
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the front of the base); numbered and stamped with foundry mark '43/E A.A. HEBRARD CIRE PERDUE' (on the side of the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.)
Original wax model executed circa 1896-1911; this bronze version cast at a later date in an edition numbered A to T, plus two casts reserved for the Degas heirs and the founder Hébrard marked HER.D and HER respectively

Provenance

Mme Georges Bigar, Lausanne (1967).
By descent from the above to the late owners.

Property from the Collection of Guy and Marie-Hélène Weill