Details EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)Deux danseuses sur un banccharcoal on tracing paper laid down on paper31 1/2 x 41 3/4 in. (80 x 106 cm.)Drawn circa 1900. Provenance Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London.Henry Moore, London. Mary Moore, London (gift from the above, by 1976). Jason McCoy, Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the late owner, May 1990. Literature R. Thomson, Degas: The Nudes, London, 1988, p. 215, no. 216 (illustrated; dated circa 1900). Exhibited Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kyoto City Art Museum and Fukuoka Art Museum, Degas, September 1976-January 1977, no. 77 (illustrated; dated 1896). Kunsthalle Tübingen and Nationalgalerie Berlin, Edgar Degas, January-May 1984, no. 196 (illustrated; dated 1896). Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Degas, February 1988-January 1989, p. 590, no. 376 (illustrated; dated circa 1900). London, The National Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, Degas: Beyond Impressionism, May 1996-January 1997, p. 299, no. 29 (illustrated in color, p. 208; dated circa 1900-1905). Special Notice On occasion, Christies has a direct financial interest in the outcome of the sale of certain lots consigned for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction, the Seller will receive a minimum sale price for the work. This is known as a minimum price guarantee. This is such a lot. Post Lot Text Theodore Reff has stated that, to his opinion, this work is by the hand of Edgar Degas. Conditions of sale