Jun 12, 2008 - Sale 2149

Sale 2149 - Lot 353

Price Realized: $ 11,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
EDGAR DEGAS
(French, 1834-1917)
Scène Biblique.

Pen and brown ink and wash on cream wove paper. 197x313 mm; 7 3/4x12 1/4 inches. Ex-collection René de Gas, Paris; Odette de Gas/Roland Nepveu, Paris, with the ink stamp, lower right recto; Arlette Nepveu-Degas, Paris; and Shepherd Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.

Exhibited French and other European Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century, Shepherd Gallery, New York, 1981, catalogue no. 60, illustrated.

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