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Edgar Degas — Femme nue debout, à sa toilette (Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself)
Edgar Degas

Femme nue debout, à sa toilette (Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself)

This intimate lithograph by Edgar Degas captures a nude woman in a private moment of bathing, her body rendered with the loose, gestural energy characteristic of the artist's celebrated series of bathers. Degas employed a complex combination of transfer monotype, crayon, tusche, and scraping to achieve a rich tonal range that evokes both softness and texture in the figure's form. The work exemplifies Degas's innovative approach to printmaking, blurring the boundaries between drawing, painting, and print to create a deeply tactile and immediacy-driven image.

Medium
Lithograph, transfer from monotype, crayon, tusche, and scraping, on machine-made laid paper, with large margins (irregular), Reed & Shapiro's fourth state (of six),

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Evening & Day Editions

October 26, 2015

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Edgar Degas, Femme nue debout, à sa toilette (Nude Woman Standing, Drying Herself)

This intimate lithograph by Edgar Degas captures a nude woman in a private moment of bathing, her body rendered with the loose, gestural energy characteristic of the artist's celebrated series of bathers. Degas employed a complex combination of transfer monotype, crayon, tusche, and scraping to achieve a rich tonal range that evokes both softness and texture in the figure's form. The work exemplifies Degas's innovative approach to printmaking, blurring the boundaries between drawing, painting, and print to create a deeply tactile and immediacy-driven image.

Medium
Lithograph, transfer from monotype, crayon, tusche, and scraping, on machine-made laid paper, with large margins (irregular), Reed & Shapiro's fourth state (of six),
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

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Monochrome, Domestic Interior, Genre Scene, Old Master, 19th Century, Male Artist, Impressionism, Printmaking, French Artist, Female Subject, Female Nude, Intimate Mood, Post-Impressionism, Master Printmaker, Figurative Art, Monochromatic, Nude Figure, Intimate Scene, Lithograph, Master Artist

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Cleveland Museum of Art