Degas

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Lot 43 - Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Abschied (Farewell), Charcoal on gray-blue laid paper.

Rare Kollwitz Drawing at Gray’s Auctioneers Premiere Sale of 2013

Released: January 17, 2013

Grays is beginning the year with their 64th auction on January 30 featuring fine works of art by Rodin, Picasso and Miró, and a rare Käthe Kollwitz drawing. The large-scale original charcoal drawing by German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz entitled Abschied (Farewell) was discovered by auctioneer Deba Gray to the delight of the consignor who was unaware of its rarity. Gray recognized the work as a study for Köllwitz’s etching Tod, Frau und Kind (Death Woman and Child), ca. 1910. The auction also features a whimsical watercolor by the Catalan artist Joan Miró titled, Man, Moon and Tree (Lo...

Rago’s to Offer Important Property from the Lydia Winston Malbin Collection at Auction on November 17, 2012

Released: October 16, 2012

Works by Jean Arp, César Baldacchini, Piero Dorazio, Victor Vasarely kept in the family. Lambertville, NJ: On Saturday, November 17, 2012, Rago Arts and Auction Center will offer important works from one of the most distinguished collections of 20th century art, the Lydia Winston Malbin Collection. Acquired largely in the 1940s through the 1950s, these works have been held by her daughter since a large portion of the collection was auctioned for over $74 million dollars in May of 1990, shortly after Mrs. Malbin’s death in the fall of 1989. Property...

Study of Legs and Arm Movements for a Dancer with a Tambourine, 1882, an image from Vingt Dessins, a portfolio of heliograph prints of twenty drawings by Edgar Degas hand-chosen by Degas to be reproduced for the limited edition of 100 albums. The portfolio was published in 1898 by art dealer Michel Manzi.

Hill-Stead Museum Presents Wonders Revealed, an Exciting New Winter Exhibition of Rarely Seen Prints

Released: December 6, 2011

Hill-Stead Museum is pleased to offer, for the first time, a comprehensive show of prints in its vast and varied collection. Wonders Revealed: Rarely Seen Original Prints by Degas, Goya and Others from Hill-Stead’s Collection opens to the public on Friday, January 8 and continues through March 31, 2012. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity not only to see works of art rarely shown to the public, but also to experience the prints on permanent view in a much more in-depth way than is afforded on the standard tour. Spanning 400 years, Hill-Stead’s print collection re...

"Nude Wringing Her Hair" by Pablo Picasso, 1952. Private Colleciton.

Picasso Looks at Degas Opening Lecture June 13 at the Clark

Released: May 27, 2010

Named one of 2010’s hot exhibitions by Harper’s Bazaar, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s groundbreaking exhibition Picasso Looks at Degas explores Pablo Picasso’s lifelong fascination with the work and life of Edgar Degas. Co-curators Elizabeth Cowling, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Edinburgh, and Richard Kendall, curator-at-large at the Clark, will discuss their experience of organizing the exhibition and address some of the intriguing questions it raised during an in-depth examination of both artists’ works in the lecture, “Homage, Mockery o...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge” (1897) from the Stein Collection.

ATLANTA COLLECTORS GIFT 47 EXTRAORDINARY WORKS TO THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART

Released: April 15, 2010

The High Museum of Art today announced a gift of 47 works of art, the majority of which are prints and posters by major artists working in fin-de-siécle Paris, from prominent Atlanta collectors Irene and Howard Stein. The Stein collection includes many rare and extremely prized works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, such as “La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge” (1897), one of only a handful of impressions of this color lithograph, and “Miss Loïe Fuller” (1893), a ghostly image of the famous American dancer that incorporates powdered gold. The gift also includes important prints and drawings by...

Gray's Auctions Rare Degas

Released: October 14, 2009

Gray’s Offers Rare Degas Bronze, Le Tub Gray’s Auctioneers is pleased to announce the sale of a rare Hébrard foundry bronze sculpture by Edgar Degas, known as Le Tub. Deba Gray, auctioneer and owner of Gray’s Auctioneers, immediately recognized the sculpture when she first discovered it in a warehouse in New York. What intrigued her was the fact that the sculpture’s bronze base had been violently removed and it seemed to have evidence of fire damage. Here begins the mystery that Ms. Gray set out to solve. She immediately thought that the bronze may have been stolen d...