Jun 12, 2008 - Sale 2149

Sale 2149 - Lot 354

Price Realized: $ 12,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
EDGAR DEGAS
(French, 1834-1917)
Feuille d'etudes: deux jambes et une figure en repose.

Double-sided pencil drawing on cream laid paper, circa 1855. 230x306 mm; 9x12 inches. With the artist's atelier red ink stamp (Lugt 657, lower right recto).

The drawing is similar to a drawing in notebook 3, page 47, from Reff, The Notebooks of Edgar Degas. A Catalogue of the thirty-eight notebooks in the Bibliotheque Nationale and other collections, Oxford, 1976.

Dr. Theodore Reff has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.