6 states were located in the 1950s by E.W. Kornfeld, “In the hands of Maurice Exsteens,
who had acquired them from his father-in-law, the Parisian collector and publisher
Gustave Pellet (1859-1919). Pellet had evidently obtained them sometime between 1900
and 1910 and is said to have had them signed by Degas.”
N. G. Stogdon notes that, “The question of the name of Degas in a hard pencil on
impressions of some of the prints has also arisen . . . Those we have observed on
[Reed/Shapiro] catalogue numbers 61 and 65 are in hard pencil and are not typical of
Degas’s hand in his later years,” (
Edgar Degas, Catalogue XII
, 2006, catalogue number 16).
Delteil 65; Adhémar 63; Reed/Shapiro 61.
[175,000/200,000]
