The Star by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
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The Star

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879/81

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collection, Paris, [Browse, 1949]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 1919, lot 76. Roger G. Gompel, by 1924-at least 1937 [Paris 1924; Paris 1937]. Cesar de Hauke, New York [Lemoisne 1946]. Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York [Lemoisne 1946]. Mr. and Mrs. Diego Suarez, New York, by 1939 [old label removed and now in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Mrs Diego Suarez to the Art Institute, 1980.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, "Degas," April 12-May 2, 1924, cat. 152.
  • Paris, Bernheim-Jeune and Co., "Cent ans de Théâtre," May 1936, cat. 28.
  • Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Degas," March-April 1937, cat. 113.
  • New York, Carroll Carstairs, "The 1870s in France," 1938.
  • New York, Jacques Seligmann Gallery, "The Stage," April 3-22, 1939, cat. 18.
  • New York, "Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York’s World’s Fair," 1939.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Works by Edgar Degas," February 5-March 9, 1947, cat. 37.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "A Loan Exhibition of Degas for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary," 1949, cat. 52.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Exhibition of Works by Edgar Degas," 1958.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 94-95, cat. 41 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas: At the Track, On the Stage", July 1, 2015-February 26, 2016, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Alfred Frankfurter, "Panorama of a Great Decade: The 1870s," Art News (December 3, 1938), p. 11 (ill.).
  • Connoisseurs of the World: Being an International Biographical Dictionary of Connoisseurs, Collectors, and Patrons of Art (London, 1943), p. 82.
  • Denis Rouart, Degas, à la Recherche de sa Technique (Paris, 1945), p. 17.
  • P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre (Paris, 1946), no. 598 (ill.).
  • Lillian Browse, Degas’s Dancers (London, 1949), no. 58.
  • Fiorella Minervino and Franco Russoli, L’opera completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 751 (ill.).
  • Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 45-46, 49 (ill. detail), 92 (ill.), and 109, pl. 21.

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