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| Woman Drying Herself after the Bath, 1876-1877 Edgar Degas French, 1834-1917 Pastel over monotype on laid paper 18 x 23-3/4 in. (45.7 x 60.3 cm) The Norton Simon Foundation F.1978.04.P © The Norton Simon Foundation On view One critic called Degas’s submissions to the 1877 Impressionist exhibition “precise notes on the intimate, daily story of our epoch.” None was more intimate or precise than this scene of a woman fresh from her bath. The picture seems to have been among the artist’s first experiments with the use of pastel over monotype. After applying ink to a metal plate with his fingertips, Degas printed two sheets from the plate, producing a pair of compositionally identical “drawings.” He worked up the second of these with pastels, creating the luminous effects of the starched petticoat at right, the water in the tub, and the model’s bare flesh. The ink of the underlying monotype remains visible only in the lower left-hand corner, just above the artist’s signature. View Provenance |
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