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Seated Nude (Study for the “Legend of Giotto” [unrealized work])
Framed: 25 1/4 × 19 × 1 1/4 inches (64.14 × 48.26 × 3.18 cm)
Exhibition, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO, October 1961, no cat.
A Generation of Draughtsmen, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, April 25-May 29, 1962, no. 47, as Seated Figure and Seated Boy.
Drawings by Degas, City Art Museum of Saint Louis, January 20-February 26, 1967, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 10-April 30, 1967, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, May 18-June 25, 1967, no. 9, as Nude Youth Seated.
Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, January 14-March 25, 1984, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, April 5-May 20, 1984, no. 17, as Sitzender Akt.
Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, September 22-December 3, 1989, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, February 17-March 25, 1990, Kansas City, MO, unnumbered, as Seated Boy.
Degas and the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 9, 2011-February 5, 2012, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, March 12-July 1, 2012, no. 19, as Seated Nude Youth.
With the artist, Paris, until 1919;
Degas’s posthumous sale, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2, 1919, no. 69a, as Fillette assise (étude de nu);
Rouart, Paris [1];
With C. D. H. Incorporated (César Mange de Hauke, 1900–1965, New York and Paris), New York, by December 18, 1949;
Purchased from the latter by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
NOTES:
[1] This constituent comes from Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas, exh. cat. (St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1966), 28; and Götz Adriani, Edgar Degas: Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat. (Cologne: DuMont, 1984), 340. It is not clear which Rouart is referred to, but it could not be Henri Rouart (1833–1912), or his brother, Alexis Rouart (1839–1911) since they had both passed away by the date of Degas’ sale in 1919.
Catalogue des Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant
de son atelier (Paris: Galerie Georges
Petit, July 2-4, 1919), 65, (repro.).
Winifred Shields, “Degas Works Sold at Auction Are in French Exhibit Here,” Kansas City Star 70, no. 258 (June 2, 1950): 21, as Seated Figure.
“Anatomy & Art: May 9 to June 5,
1960,” The Nelson Gallery and Atkins
Museum Bulletin 3, no. 1 (1960): 16.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, A
Generation of Draughtsmen, exh. cat. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Museum of Art, 1962), unpaginated, (repro.).
Jean Sutherland Boggs, Drawings by Degas,
exh. cat. (St. Louis: City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1966), 28, 32, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart and George
L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the
Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William
Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973),188, (repro.), as Seated
Figure.
Theodore Reff, The Notebooks of Edgar
Degas: A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale
and Other Collections 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 54n3.
Akiko Mabuchi,ドガ/
Degas (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1978), 8-9, (repro).
Carol A. Nathanson and Edward J. Olszewski, "Degas's Angel of the Apocalypse," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 8 (1980): 244-46, (repro.), as Seated Figure.
Götz Adriani, Edgar Degas:
Pastelle, Ölskizzen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat. (Cologne: DuMont, 1984), 135, 340,
(repro.).
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,
Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Washington University Museum of Art, 1989),
9, 59, (repro.).
Donald Hoffman, “Drawings tell ignored
value of collection,” The Kansas City
Star 110, no. 135 (February 25, 1990): 3J, as Seated Boy.
George T.M. Shackelford and Xavier Rey, Degas
and the Nude, exh. cat. (Boston:
MFA Publications, 2011), 21-22, 222, (repro.).
