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Edgar Degas

Four Dancers

1889-1894

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Edgar Degas

Four Dancers

1889-1894

Physical Qualities Charcoal, Sheet (Mount): 370 × 423 mm. (14 9/16 × 16 5/8 in.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, Bequest of Frederic W. Cone
Object Number 1950.12.658
Studies of four dancers, all nude, in various positions: at far left, dancer stands and bows towards the main dancer; the next dancer stands in a similar position but is slightly more erect; the third figure kneels on one knee; the figure at the far right stands with hands above head, proper right leg propped on pointed toes and bent at knee.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest, 1944; Frederic Cone
Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris

Degas and Rodin - The Race of the Giants Towards the Modern
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," 1967, p. 72, no. 178.
Breeskin, Adelyn. "From Maryland Collections: Brilliant Facets of French 19th-Century Art," ART DIGEST 26:4 (November 15, 1951); illust. p. 11.
P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre, Paris, 1946, 4 volumes.

Inscribed: VERSO: LowerC, graphite, '18/24'

Artist

Edgar Degas

1833–1916

French, 1834-1917
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