Donna seduta in una poltrona Wiping suo collo modellato probabilmente prima del 1902, cast 1920 Edgar Degas francese sulla morte di Degas nel 1917, più di 150 sculture figurative sono stati trovati nel suo studio. La maggior parte erano fatte di cera fragile, argilla e plastilina (un materiale modellante a base di cera e olio). Molti si erano deteriorati. Solo pochi furono conservati in copie che erano state gettate da loro in gesso. Ad eccezione della cera poco quattordicenne ballerino (Washington: NGA) nessuna di queste sculture era stata esposta pubblicamente durante la vita dell’artista.anche se Degas non aveva preferito riprodurre le sue sculture in m

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Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Neck modeled probably before 1902, cast 1920 Edgar Degas French Upon Degas's death in 1917, more than 150 figurative sculptures were found in his studio. Most were made of fragile wax, clay, and plastiline (a wax- and oil-based modeling material). Many had deteriorated. Only a few were preserved in copies that had been cast from them in plaster. Except for the wax Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (Washington: NGA) none of these sculptures had been publicly exhibited during the artist’s lifetime.Although Degas had not favored reproducing his sculptures in more permanent materials, his heirs authorized that copies be cast in bronze in order to preserve the compositions and to sell them as finished works. Paul-Albert Bartholomé, a sculptor and Degas's longtime friend, prepared 72 of the figures for casting, a process executed by the distinguished Paris foundry A.-A. Hébrard et Cie. The quality of the Degas bronzes was tightly controlled and their edition was limited. Only twenty-two editions of the series of 72 figures were cast. Each bronze within the series was assigned a number from one to seventy-two. The first twenty editions were assigned a letter from A-T. In most cases these numbers and letters were incised on the individual bronzes.The series of 72 bronzes was completed before May 1921 when it was exhibited in Paris. Edition A, comprising the first and best casts of the series, was reserved for the important Impressionist collector Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer. She later acquired the first bronze cast of the Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (lettered A, but not numbered), which had been omitted from the initial series. In 1929 Mrs. Havemeyer bequeathed Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer and 70 of the 72 Edition A Degas bronzes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.. Woman Seated in an Armchair Wiping Her Neck. Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris). French. modeled probably before 1902, cast 1920. Bronze. Sculpture-Bronze