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Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Edgar Degas - The Dancers 1880
 The Dancers |
From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
About 1900 Degas revised a painting (Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection, Zürich) that he had made some twenty years earlier. This pastel, which reprises the composition, may well have been created during the modifications. Degas likely sold the pastel directly to the dealer Ambroise Vollard, who is recorded as the owner in 1914.