A view from the Degas family on his works at auction
Marielle Barde, Edgar Degas’ great-niece, was one of the heirs and vendors of the Degas studio drawings and attended Christie’s Paris sale. This was the second such dispersal the family had held in these rooms of artworks from her famous great-uncle following a house move some decades ago.
Asked by ATG what she felt about the slightly uneven nature of the results, she too thought it was…