Edgar Degas(1834-1917), Danseuse saluant, bronze sculpture, posthumous cast from thelegitimate edition made under the control of the artist's heirs, signed andnumbered 9/E, Foundry stamp "O A A/ A.A Hebrard/ Cire Perdue", h.21.5 cm and 10.1x12.4 cm (base)

Conceivedaround 1882-95, this cast is part of a series of 22 legitimate casts madebetween 1919 and 1937 (or later) by the Hébrard foundry, including 18 castsnumbered from A to T, as well as 4 casts (2 reserved for the family and 2 forthe Hébrard foundry)

Certificateof registration of the cast in the archives dedicated to the sculptural workof Edgar Degas by Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, 15 February 2022

Provenance:Sale Hôtel Drouot, Maître Ferri, 4 July, 2001, no. 85

Bibliography:Von Matt, Rewald, L'œuvre sculpté de Degas, Manesse Zürich, 1957, p. 151, fig.12, no. XXXIII; Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures, Imprimerie nationale, Paris,1991, p. 164, no. 25 (another illustrated print); Ronald Pickvance, Degas,Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 19 June to 21 November 1993, S29 (anotherillustrated print); S. Campbell, Degas. The sculptures, a catalogue raisonné,in Apollo, August 1995, p. 15, no. 9 (another illustrated print); Anne Pingeot,Joseph S. Czestochowski, Degas Sculptures, Catalogue raisonné of the bronzes,Memphis, 2002, p. 139, no. 9 (another illustrated print); Tel Aviv Museum ofArt, The Sculptures of Edgar Degas, Mordechai Omer, 2010, p. 73 (anotherillustrated print)

Exhibition: A. A. Hébrard, Paris, Exposition des sculpturesde Degas, May-June 1921, no. 25