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After Bathing
Woman with Towel
Lost Art-ID
615323
Artist
Degas, Edgar
Birth
1834.07.19, Paris
Death
1917.09.27, Paris
Place of activity
Rom; Paris; New Orleans
Title
After Bathing
Additional title
Woman with Towel
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Cardboard [?] / Pastel
Measures
75/75,5 cm x 47,5/50 cm
Description
Signed in the lower left corner: Degas
Provenance
Marcell Nemes, Budapest-Munich, purchased from the Degas Estate auction, Paris, 1918, No. 155; Auction of the collection of Marcell Nemes, Helbing, Münich, 1931, No. 97; Baron Ferenc Hatvany, Budapest, 1931; Deposited at the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, 1942; Lost from the bank deposit, by January 1945; [...]; Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Restoration
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
Friedländer, M.J., Sammlung Marczell von Nemes, Versteigerungskat. Cassirer und Helbing, Munich, 1931. No. 97; Genthon, István, Báró Hatvany Ferenc modern képgyűjteménye [Modern picture collection of Baron Ferenc Hatvany], in: Magyar Művészet XI [Hungarian Art] Budapest, 1935). p. 5 and repr. 6 (“a good version of a typical Degas subject”); Pogány, Kálmán, Báró Hatvany Ferenc műgyűjteményének teljes jegyzéke [Complete inventroy of the art collection of Baron Ferenc Hatvany] manuscript, 1937. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XIX-J-12-845/1947. I/a. No. 27; Francia művészeti alkotások kiállítása magyar magántulajdonból. [Exhibition of French artworks from Hungarian Private Collections] January 21 – February 4, 1940. Gróf Almásy-Teleki Éva Művészeti Intézete, Budapest. No. 64; Hatvany Ferenc bejelentése az elhurcolt vagy elpusztult műalkotásairól. [Submission of Ferenc Hatvany about his losses of artworks] Köz- és magángyűjteményekből elhurcolt művészeti alkotások miniszteri biztossága [Government Commission on Artworks Looted from Public and Private Collections], Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár, [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 147/1947. p. 2; Gerlötei, Eugéne: L'ancienne Collection Francois de Hatvany, in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Mai-June 1966. p. 365; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. p. 242. No. 16855; Project “Heritage Revealed”, Catalog of art Objects from Hungarian Private Collections, Moscow, Rudomino, 2003. p 136 illustrated
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