Edgar Degas - Breakfast after the Bath. The Bath 1895-1898. Degas shows the female figure from a new perspective. art-Degas.com

Edgar Degas - Breakfast after the Bath. The Bath 1895-1898

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From Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland:
In his boudoir pictures Degas concentrated on the everyday, intimate gestures of women at their toilette. The pastel Breakfast after the Bath does not show Venus emerging from the sea on a shell, but an anonymous female figure seen from the rear as she climbs out of the bathtub. Just as the Impressionists found new ways of perceiving and depicting landscape, Degas shows the female figure from a new perspective. He captures the ephemeral moment in his use of colour, while his solid compositional structure ensures that the moment does not pass all too swiftly, but endures – to this very day.

In the summer of 1886, Paul Gauguin visited the small village of Pont-Aven
in Brittany, where he became fascinated with the long history of peasant life
and its traditional costumes, customs, and rituals. He painted numerous
scenes of peasant life and the countryside, including The Yellow Christ.
- art-Gauguin.com

Montmartre 1886 - this painting dates from the winter of 1887, roughly
a year after Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris to join his brother, the
art dealer Theo van Gogh. It is one of a group of landscapes featuring
the Butte Montmartre, a short climb from the apartment on the rue Lepic
where Vincent and Theo lived. - art-vanGogh.com

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Edgar Degas 1834-1917