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Danseuse s’inclinant by Edgar Degas, Circa 1875 to 1876, Drawing in black chalk, heightened in white, on light grey wove paper, mounted on cardboard, offered Sep 2024Photo © Kornfeld — view this lot on Kornfeld ↗

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Danseuse s’inclinant

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) · Circa 1875 to 1876

Unsold / did not meet reserve

Estimate CHF 300,000 (≈ $354,150) (≈ £269,993) (≈ €319,601)

Offered at Kornfeld and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.

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Medium
Drawing (chalk) · Works on paper all drawing results →
As published: “Drawing in black chalk, heightened in white, on light grey wove paper, mounted on cardboard”
Support
Board
Category
Drawings
Dimensions
34 x 28.5 cm, sheet size
Auction house
Kornfeld
Sale
Auction 280: Highlights from the - Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection - Live Auction (280)
Date
September 13, 2024
Location
Bern, Switzerland
Lot
3
Estimate
CHF 300,000 – — (≈ $354,150) (≈ £269,993) (≈ €319,601)
Source
Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗
Retrieved Sep 28, 2026
Provenance (5)
  • Auction Paris, Vente Degas II, 11-13 December 1919, lot 356
  • Gustave Pellet Collection, Paris
  • Maurice Exsteens Collection, Paris
  • Galerie Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern, acquired at the exhibition in 1960 by
  • The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse, Lugt 913b
Exhibitions (17)
  • Paris 1931, Galerie Marcel Guiot, Daumier, Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec, cat. no. 50, ill. reprod. 25
  • Paris 1948/1949, Galerie Charpentier, Danse et divertissement, cat. no. 61
  • Bern 1951/1952, Kunstmuseum, Degas, cat. no. 168
  • Amsterdam 1952, Gemeentemuseum, Degas, cat. no. 92
  • Paris 1955, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Degas dans les collections françaises, cat. no. 95
  • Bern 1960, Klipstein and Kornfeld, Choix d'une collection privée, Collections G. P. and M. E., cat. no. 22, ill.
  • Bern 1964, Kornfeld and Klipstein, Ausstellung 1864-1964, 100 Jahre Galerie, cat. no. 16, ill. on the cover
  • Manchester/Cambridge 1987, Whitworth Art Gallery/Fitzwilliam Museum, The Private Degas, ill. 70
  • Bern 1989, Kunstmuseum Bern, Von Goya bis Tinguely, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen aus einer Privatsammlung [Slg. Eberhard W. Kornfeld], cat. no. 10, ill. p. 31
  • Martigny 1993, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Degas, cat. no. 29, ill.
  • Bern/Hamburg 1996, Kunstmuseum/Kunsthalle, "Zeichnen ist Sehen", Meisterwerke von Ingres bis Cézanne aus dem Museum der bildenden Künste Budapest und aus Schweizer Sammlungen, cat. no. 82, ill. p. 187
  • Davos 1998/1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 2, ill.
  • Madrid 2003, Fundación Juan March, Espíritu de modernidad: de Goya a Giacometti, Obra sobre papel de la colección Kornfeld, cat. no. 3, p. 130, ill. p. 21
  • Vienna 2008/2009, Albertina, Wege der Moderne, Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 6, p. 284, ill. p. 22
  • Cologne 2010/2011, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Paris bezauberte mich – Käthe Kollwitz und die französische Moderne
  • Tübingen 2011/2012, Kunsthalle, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso & Co, 40 years of the Kunsthalle Tübingen and Götz Adriani, p. 285, ill. p. 87
  • Vienna 2012, Albertina, Impressionismus : Pastelle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, cat. no. 65, ill. p. 148
Literature (5)
  • Henri Rivière, Les Dessins de Degas, Paris 1922/1923
  • Marie-Louise Bataille, Degas, in: Kunst und Künstler, July 1930, p. 404
  • Georges Rivière, Degas, Paris 1938, ill. p. 89
  • Jaromir Pecirka, Degas, Dessins, Paris/Prague 1963, ill. 33
  • Dover Publications, Inc, Degas' Drawings, New York 1973, no. 59

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