
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),
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
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Evening & Day Editions
October 26, 2015
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