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Dancer Stretching at the Bar
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum

Dancer Stretching at the Bar

1877?1880
Edgar Degas visual detail
ArtistEdgar Degas
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $9,000 Dealer sale · Nov 1, 1919
+444.8% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1919 · $1,6521919 · $9,000
$2K1919
$9K1919
Last known price$9,0002 matched observed sales
Observed median$5,326
Observed sales2
Artist index600.8
1919-11-01Dealer sale$9,000.00
1919-05-24Dealer purchase$1,652.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 600.8 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Dancers at the Old Opera House
1877 · pastel over monotype on laid pap...
1930-04-12—$12,000.0050%
Dancers with Fans
1898 · Pastel on paper mounted on cardb...
1945-05-01—$32,000.0044%
Dancers with Fans
1898 · Pastel on paper mounted on cardb...
1943-04-24—$7,000.0044%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris [invoice]

Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris [invoice]

sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 28, 1917, lot 73 (ill.). Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, to Martin Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, April 14, 1920 [invoice]

sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 28, 1917, lot 73 (ill.). Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, to Ma...

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Source provenance text

Jacques Doucet (1853-1929), Paris [invoice]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 28, 1917, lot 73 (ill.). Sold by Georges Bernheim, Paris, to Martin Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago, April 14, 1920 [invoice]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

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Exhibitions

Public
Source exhibition text

Minneapolis, Minn., The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, " Exhibition of Modern Frnch Paintings," November 1921-January 1922. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture" June 1- November 1, 1933, p. 90, cat. 860. Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, "Degas and The Dance," April 5-May 27, 1979, cat. 16 (ill.) The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 90-91, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh. Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, "Edgar Degas: Exploring Diminsions," August 12-October 9, 1994. Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, "Degas and the Little Dancer," February 7-May 3, 1998, p. 150, pl. 14, cat. by Richard Kendall, et. al.; traveled to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; and the the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 4, 1998-January 3, 1999. Vienna, Albertina, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings", February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 114, 146, pl. 63, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Dancer Stretching at the Bar is a pastel by Edgar Degas, dated 1877?1880, made in Pastel with estompe on cream laid paper, with recorded dimensions 31.8 ? 24 cm (12 9/16 ? 9 1/2 in.). It is held by The Art Institute of Chicago under accession 1933.1229. Combination Sale Geo. Petit May 22/19 Nº 40

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 3 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 7 structured exhibitions.

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