After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair
c. 1895 null
About this artwork
This charcoal drawing depicts a nude woman captured in a private, intimate moment of grooming. It exemplifies Degas's late-career interest in the female form and his mastery of line and texture.
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Edgar Degas famously spent the later part of his life obsessed with depicting the mundane, private acts of women bathing and dressing. He viewed these figures as if through a keyhole, aiming to capture the honest, unposed humanity of his subjects without the artifice of classical idealization.
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After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair
Edgar Degas, c. 1895
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