Edgar Degas
The Singer in Green
c. 188460.3 x 46.4 cm
Pastel on light blue laid paper
Signed lower right: Degas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
Provenance
Monsieur Laurent, Paris, until 1898
his anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1898, nr. 4, to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1898-1906, sent on consignment to Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 18 October-18 November 1901, sold on 3 February 1906 to Hébrard
A.A. Hébrard, Paris, from 1906
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram, Paris, until 1908, sold on 15 May 1908 to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1908-9, sold on 17 April 1909 to Ryabushinsky
Mikhail Pavlovich Ryabushinsky, Moscow, from 1909-probably 1918/19
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, probably 1918/19-1925
Museum of Modern Western Art, Moscow, 1925-33, sold on 9 May 1933 through Knoedler to Clark
Stephen C. Clark, New York, 1933-died 1960
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
Other works by Edgar Degas
Woman after her bath
c. 1900-05
c. 1900-05
Before the Race
1882-88
1882-88
Absinthe
c. 1875-76
c. 1875-76
After the bath, woman drying herself
c. 1894-96
c. 1894-96
Interior of a Cotton Buyer's Office in New Orleans
1873
1873