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DEGAS, Edgar (1834-1917)

[Paysage]

Monotype, circa 1890, in oil colors on paper, 30.4 x 40 cm

Provenance:

René de Gas (the artist's brother);

Maurice Exteens;

[Paul Brame and César de Hauke, Paris];

Sir Robert Abdy;

Valentine Abdy;

[La Galerie de L’Oeil, Paris];

[E.V. Thaw & Co., New York, to:]

Our collection;

[by exchange to E.V. Thaw & Co., and acquired by:]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Literature:

Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, 1968), no. 289

Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), fig. 136

Jodi Hauptman, Degas: A Stange New Beauty (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), 

p. 233, no. 132

Exhibited:

Degas Landscapes, 1994 (Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), no. 43

Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, 2016 (The Museum of Modern Art), no. 132