How solid is an art provenance text? Analysis of a Degas sculpture at the NGA

"Probably", "possibly", "apparently", "proposes" and "allegedly" in texts for Degas' Dancer Adjusting the Shoulder Strap of Her Bodice, original wax 1880s/1890s, cast 1920/1949 at the NGA

Frank Perls and Degas posthumous art

"the posthumous impressions from his canceled plates by the Frank Perls Gallery began after 1939 some twenty-two years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917."

"Edgar Degas died in 1917. The ten so-called "sculptures in bronze" and "etchings" in the Denver Art Museum's February 11 to May 2018 Degas: A Passion for Perfection exhibition were posthumously cast and impressed after 1919 till as late as 1981, some 2 to 64 years after Edgar Degas' death in 1917."

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Degas: A Passion for FAKES at the Denver Art Museum

GARY ARSENEAU

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https://rosettaapp.getty.edu/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=FL4157601

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/152785/the-lecturer-le-lecteur


http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/2013/03/degas-forgeries-bait-and-switch-at.html

http://garyarseneau.blogspot.com/2018/03/making-wrong-impression-arthur-ross.html