Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) Lot n° 48

Grande Arabesque, Deuxième Temps, Signed 'Degas,' numbered '15' and stamped with 'Cire/Perdue/A. A. Hébrard' foundry mark on the top of the base, bronze with brown patina Height: 17 in. (43.2cm) [Hébrard 15, cast after 1948]Alex Maguy, Galerie de l'Élysée, Paris. Acquired directly from the above in 1966. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul & Sophie Sampliner. Their daughter, Mrs. Avrum Ben-Avi. By descent in the family to the present consignor. LITERATURE: John Rewald, Degas Works in Sculpture: A Complete Catalogue, Pantheon Books, New York, 1944, p. 23, no. XXXVI, pp. 88-89 (another cast illustrated). Lillian Browse, Degas Dancers, Faber & Faber, London, 1949, no. 157, p. 389 (another cast illustrated as Danseuse Nue en Arabesque). Jacques Lassaigne, Fiorella Minervino and Simone Darses, Tout L’OEuvre Peint de Degas, Flammarion, Paris, 1974, no. S 6, p. 140 (another cast illustrated). Charles W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1976, plate 90 (another cast illustrated). Richard Thompson, The Private Degas, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, no. 178 , pp. 130-131 (another cast illustrated). John Rewald, Degas’s Complete Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, A. Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1990, no. XXXVI, pp. 110-111 (original wax model and another cast illustrated). Anne Pingeot, Degas, Sculptures, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1991, no. 6, p. 155 (another cast illustrated as plates 72 and 73). Alice C. Frelinghuysen, et al., Splendid Legacy, The Havemeyer Collection, an exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, p. 80 (another cast illustrated). Sara Campbell, “Degas: The Sculptures, a Catalogue Raisonné,” in Apollo, August 1995, vol. CXLII, no. 402, p. 18, no. 15 (another cast illustrated). Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot, Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes, International Arts, Memph