Edgar Degas - Woman Drying Her Foot 1885

Woman Drying Her Foot 1885
Woman Drying Her Foot
1885 50x54cm pastel/paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
In this pastel and another of 1885–86 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Degas explored the expressive potential of a bather doubled-up, snail-like, drying her foot. The blue, yellow, and green harmonies in the two works are typical of many of his bather pastels, but the hues here are more high-keyed.