Art Institute of Chicago
Woman Arranging Her Hair
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bf4856169bdb
- Date
- Modeled c. late 1880s-90s, cast c. 1919-37
- Medium
- Bronze
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 282212
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
After Edgar Degas’s death in 1917, a large group of sculptures were discovered in his studio, most of them modeled in wax. With one exception, the works had never been exhibited during his lifetime and were virtually unknown to his contemporaries. Parisian foundry A. A. Hébrard eventually cast 74 of the figures into bronze, and three of the resulting sculptures in the collection of the Art Institute: Dancer Ready to Dance, Right Foot Forward , Arabesque , and Woman Arranging Her Hair .
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- Credit line
- Gift of Marian Phelps Pawlick
- Provenance
- Lester (1912–1970) and Joan Avnet (1914–1994), New York, 1968; by descent to their estate; sold, their estate sale, Christie’s, London, Nov. 30, 1971, lot 396, to Franz. Ellen Hoffman, by 1985; Eugene V. Thaw (1927–2018), New York, 1985; sold to Acquavella Galleries, New York; sold to Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, 1985. Marian Phelps Pawlick (b. 1926), Lake Bluff, IL; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.
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- Object type
- AAT300301253
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