Lot #97: EDGAR DEGAS - Chanteuse du café-concert - Original color gravure with pochoir, after the monotype

   

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917).
Title: "Chanteuse du café-concert".
Medium: Original color gravure with pochoir, after the monotype.
Date: Composed c1875-1876. Printed 1948.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 11/16 x 9 in. (271 x 229 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $800/1,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in the plate, upper right; numbered in pencil, lower left; handstamps verso. Edition of 500. Cream wove Marais "vellum" paper. Wide margins. Fine impression with delicately applied pochoir. Fine condition, very crisp, with a pronounced platemark and the expected light tanning to the sheet. Provenance: Ex-collection Marty Gordon (the legendary print dealer), Martin Gordon, Inc., New York City, his handstamp verso.
Comment(s): Degas created a considerable body of monotypes in the late 19th century. A number of them were reduced in size and recreated as original works in 1938 and again in 1948, of which our example is part. The verso bears the handstamp of Edgar Achille Gaston DeGas-Musson (1875-1953), the son of Estelle Angelina Musson DeGas and Jean Baptiste Rene DeGas (the brother of Edgar Degas). [29328-2-600-NA]