About This Artwork

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

Singers on the Stage, 1877/79

Pastel over monotype on ivory wove paper, laid down on board
160 x 210 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in margin, in graphite: "Degas"
Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells, 1977.773

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, “Degas,” April 12-May 2, 1924, cat. 225.

London, Artemis Group, “Edgar Degas,” 1983, cat. 15.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Degas in The Art Institute of Chicago," July 19-September 23, 1984, pp. 85-86, cat. 37 (ill.), cat. by Richard R. Brettell and Suzanne Folds McCullagh.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton gallery 202A, May 21, 1988-June 1, 1990 (installation).

Denmark, Copenhagen, Ordrupgaardsmalingen, "Degas Monotypes", October 14-December 30, 1994, cat. 6

Publication History

P. A. Lemoisne, Degas et son Oeuvre, 2 (Paris, 1946), no. 455 (ill.).

Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes (Cambridge, 1968) no. 30 (ill.).

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L’Opera Completa di Degas (Milan, 1970), no. 453 (ill.).

Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), pp. 39-40, no. 2E12.

Mikael Wivel, Degas Intime (København, 1994), no. 6.

Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas (Chicago, 1996), pp. 35, 84 (ill.), 106 (ill. detail), and 108, pl. 13.

Ownership History

Georges Viau's estate (died 1939), Paris, by April 1924-at least 1946 [Paris 1924 exh. cat.; and according to Lemoisne 1946]. Bequeathed by Mrs. Clive (Mary) Runnells to the Art Institute, 1977.