Edgar Degas

FEMME NUE, DE DOS, SE COIFFANT (FEMME SE PEIGNANT)

1834 - 1917

signed Degas (upper right)
pastel on paper laid down on board
70.8 by 59cm.
27 7/8 by 23 3/4 in.
Executed circa 1886-88.

Provenance:
Goupil & Co., Paris (possibly acquired from the artist)

Ernest Chausson, Paris

Mme Ernest Chausson, Paris (by descent from the above. Sold: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5th June 1936, lot 7)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris & New York (acquired at the above sale)

Mrs Herbert C. Morris, Bryn Mawr (acquired from the above on 13th March 1945; until at least 1965)

Sale: Christie's, New York, 31st October 1978, lot 10

A. Alfred Taubman (purchased at the above sale)