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Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
EDGAR DEGAS La Sortie de Bain.
Drypoint and aquatint, 1879-80. 128x128 mm; 5 1/8x5 1/8 inches, full margins. Twenty-first state (of 22), with the left part of the door shaded. A superb, richly-inked and extremely scarce lifetime impression of this important print.
Delteil notes a total of 43 proofs represented at the Atelier Degas sale of 1918; Reed/Shapiro locate only 33 extant impressions.
According to Reed/Shapiro, "The date of execution for La Sortie de Bain, 1879-80, accords with Degas's (1834-1917) renewed printmaking activity and his use of innovative methods that centered on the projected journal of prints, Le Jour et la nuit.
Provenance: the estate of the artist, Paris, with the red ink stamp verso (Lugt 657); his sale Catalogue des Eaux-fortes, Vernis mous, Aqua-tintes, Lithographies et Monotypies par Edgar Degas et provenant de son Atelier, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, November 22-23, 1918, lot 98 (part); Henri-Marie Petiet, Paris, with his blue ink stamp verso (Lugt 5031); sold Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 12, 2009, lot 30; private collection, New York. Delteil 39; Adhémar 49; Reed/Shapiro 42.
