Edgar Degas: Woman drying her neck, after her bath, 1898
Pastel on cardboard
H. 62.2; W. 65 cm
Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Bequest of Count Isaac de Camondo, 1911
© RMN-GP (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
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Degas and the Nude
FRANCE
PARIS • Musée d'Orsay • Ongoing
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This exhibition explores Degas's evolution in his practice of the nude, from the academic and historical approach of his early years down to the inscription of the body in modernity throughout his long career. A predominant element in the artist's work, together with dancers and horses, nudes are presented through all of the techniques used by Degas, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printing and above all pastel, which he brought to its highest degree of achievement.
Organised in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition takes advantage of the very rich collection of graphic works of the Musée d'Orsay, seldom shown due to its fragility, to which have been added exceptional loans from the largest collections, such as those of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the New York Metropolitan Museum.
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