About the Artwork
Two Nude Men
between 1856 and 1857
Edgar Degas
1834-1917
French
Unknown
Graphite pencil on dark cream (wove?) paper
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 8 1/4 inches (28.6 × 21 cm) Framed: 19 5/8 × 16 1/2 × 1 3/8 inches (49.8 × 41.9 × 3.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of John S. Newberry
65.150
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Markings
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Sale stamp in red ink, lower left: Degas (Lugt 658)
Provenance
July 2-4, 1919, Edgar Degas sale, fourth sale, no. 84b
Durand-Ruel Gallery, (Paris, France). John S. Newberry (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1965-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgas Degas. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit, Paris. 1919, fourth sale, no. 84b.
Champigneulle, Bernard. Degas Dessins. Paris, 1952, p. 17.
The John S. Newberry Collection: Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture Selected from the John Stoughton Newberry Bequest and Gifts. Detroit, 1965, p. 33 (ill.).
Reff, Theodore. "Works by Degas in the Detroit Institute of Arts." Bulletin of the DIA 53, 1 (1974): p. 4 (ill.), pp. 27-28.
Walker, J. Gazette des Beaux-Arts10 (1933): p.174.
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Edgar Degas, Two Nude Men, between 1856 and 1857, graphite pencil on dark cream (wove?) paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of John S. Newberry, 65.150.
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