Figures at a Café

Artist Name: Edgar

Degas

Object Type: Painting

Genre: Genre

Christie’s Information for Hill Sale

Christie’s Sale Date: February 20th 1892

Christie’s Lot Number: 209

Bought by at Christie’s: Reid

Gallery / Dealer Address: La Société des Beaux-Arts, 117 West George St, Glasgow

Christie’s Sale Price: £ 180

Exhibition and Provenance Information

Gallery Exhibited: Grafton Galley

Date of Exhibition: 1893

Further Exhibitions: Brighton Art Gallery

Further Provenance: Arthur Kay (1892-93) Comte de Comondo (1893)

Current Location: Musee d’Orsay, Paris

Further Information:

This painting is now known as L’Absinthe and was accepted for the Louvre as a legacy to the National Museums from Count Isaac de Camondo in 1911. It was then transferred to its current home at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

After L’Absinthe was acquired by Alexander Reid at the Hill sale, Reid sold it to Arthur Kay (a collector in Glasgow). When it was exhibited in 1893 at the Grafton Gallery it caused an outcry in the press and in popular opinion although the then Director of the Tate, D.S. McCall recognised it as an ‘inexhaustible picture, the one that draws you back again and again’ (Spectator 25.2.1893)

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