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Another of the major themes running through the work of Edgar Degas is that of a woman bathing. Its origins go right back to one of his earliest surviving paintings.
Degas is believed to have started to paint Candaule’s Wife in about 1855-56, when he was still a student, and before he went to Italy. Although he abandoned it soon afterwards, and never completed its narrative content, the figure of Queen Nyssia undressed and ready to get into bed could equally well have been bathing, getting out of a bath, or drying herself afterwards.
Another recurrent activity which appears in his later work is the combing or brushing of hair, which was the theme of Women Combing Their Hair painted in about 1875-76, although these three figures are dressed in chemises (shifts).
Degas’ first painting of a woman bathing followed in about 1876. In the 1880s, this theme came to dominate many of his works, perhaps to the point of obsession.
Woman Drying Herself after the Bath is painted in pastel over a monotype, and has been proposed as being one of his first works showing a woman bathing, from 1876-77.
It is one of the few works in this series which sets the woman in a broader context, here a plain and simple bedroom, with a single bed. The woman, wearing onl
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After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself
Pastel by Edgar Degas
After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself is a pastel drawing by Edgar Degas, made between 1890 and 1895. Since 1959, it has been in the collection of the National Gallery, London. This work is one in a series of pastels and oils that Degas created depicting female nudes. Originally, Degas exhibited his works at Impressionist exhibitions in Paris, where he gained a loyal following.[1]
Degas's nude works, including After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, continue to spark controversy among art critics.[2]
Artwork
[edit]Edgar Degas often used photographs and sketches as a preliminary step, studying the light and the composition for his paintings. His use of light may be attributable to his deteriorating eyesight.[3] Degas applied numerous pastel layers in After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, making the woman appear somewhat translucent.[3] The heavily worked pastel creates deep textures and blurred contours, emphasizing the figure's movement.
The work depicts a woman sitting on white towels spread over a wicker chair, with her back to the viewer. Her body is arched and slightly twisted, creating a tension in her back, accentuated by the deep line of her backbone. One
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Woman in a Tub (Degas)
Pastel by Edgar Degas
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Associated works
[edit]Woman in a tub, 1884, Glasgow Museums[3]
Woman Drying Herself after representation Bath, c.1885, Norton Psychologist