Catalogue
Raisonné of the Bronzes
Edited by Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot
JOSEPH S. CZESTOCHOWSKI is an American art historian, past
museum director, and author of several monographs and critical
catalogues. His interest in the work of Edgar Degas developed
from his studies, in the 1970s, with Muriel B. Christison,
who organized the groundbreaking exhibition of Degas's sculpture
at the Virginia Museum of Art in 1956. Currently affiliated
with an international consulting firm, he is active with several
foundations, and works in Memphis and New York.
ANNE PINGEOT, then a member of the sculpture department at
the Musée du Louvre, was instrumental in setting up
the Musée d'Orsay from its inception and is currently
the Conservator General at the d'Orsay. She has organized
several important sculpture exhibitions for the museum and
written and/or edited a number of publications, including,
in 1991, the seminal catalogue in the field, Degas, Sculptures.
Contributors to the catalogue include DAPHNE BARBOUR, Objects
Conservator, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.;
ARTHUR BEALE, Director of Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston; SARA CAMPBELL, Senior Curator, Norton Simon Museum,
Pasadena; ANN DUMAS, Consulting Curator, The Royal Academy,
London; MARTINE KAHANE, Conservator General and Director of
Cultural Services, Opéra national de Paris; LUIS MARQUES,
Director Emeritus, Museu Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil; CHARLES
MILLARD, Retired director, Ackland Art Museum, University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; THEODORE REFF, Professor
of Art History, Columbia University, New York; and SHELLEY
STURMAN, Head of Objects Conservation, The National Gallery
of Art Washington, D. C.
J. CARTER BROWN is the late Director Emeritus, The National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ AND APENDIXES
The catalogue raisonné of the bronzes, published by
Pingeot in 1991, has been expanded dramatically as a result
of meticulous and wide-ranging research into the provenance
of the sculptures. Also included are the Durand-Ruel and Vollard
inventory of sculptures in Degas's studio 1917-1918, Hébrard
Foundry Edition contract of 1918, the distribution of Degas's
sculptures by the Foundry before 1936, chronology of sculptures,
selected exhibition records, concordance (Hébrard/Rewald/Pingeot),
and index of titles
New photography principally by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini, Geneva,
courtesy of the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny
Archival photography by Leonard von Matt, courtesy of Gemeinnützige
Stiftung Leonard von Matt
Published by The Torch Press and International Arts
info@internationalarts.com
Front and back covers: Edgar Degas, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen,
cat. 73. Photo: Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini, Geneva
Spine: Edgar Degas, Rearing Horse, cat. 4. Photo: Pierre-Alain
Ferrazzini, Geneva
Jacket design by Gilbert Design Associates, Providence, Rhode
Island
102 color and 267 black-and-white illustrations, 10 x 11 1
in (25.4 x 28.9 cm), 288 pages
Printed in Milan by Sfera International
Contents
Sample pages from the catalogue:
Inventory, Biography,
Afterword, etc.
Cover
Degas's Sculptures
Re-examined
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