Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) Deux femmes nues debout de profil - - Lot 95

Edgar DEGAS (1834-1917) Deux femmes nues debout de profil - circa 1889 Charcoal and estompe on paper, stamped lower left (Lugt.658), affixed at time of sale.On the back of the cardboard, studio stamp (Lugt 657) 50 x 32.5 cm Provenance: -Artist's studio -Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3rd sale, April 7-9, 1919. -Paul Rosenberg, Paris (spoliated in 1941 and returned to him in 1948, following a decision by the Lausanne Tribunal) -Galerie Schmit, Paris (before 1976) -Private collection Monsieur X Bibliography: -IIIrd Degas Sale, April 7-9, 1919, lot 361 p.261, reproduced with another drawing and reversed in photogravure. Exhibitions: -Aix-en-Provence, Les Impressionnistes en noir et blanc, 1974, no. 35 (illustrated on cover) -Paris, Galerie Schmit, Degas, May-June 1975, no. 82 (illustrated)