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1890, Edgar Degas, Woman Combing Her Hair [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Bathers continued to preoccupy Degas as a subject in the late 1880s and into the 1890s. Through the creation of variants on this theme, he experimented with the pastel medium. In this work, he applied the strokes in many successive layers, juxtaposing shades of chartreuse, green, and blue with pink and orange, perhaps playing with ideas of optical color mixing investigated by his younger contemporaries such as Georges Seurat.
1890, Edgar Degas, Woman Combing Her Hair [pastel] -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Bathers continued to preoccupy Degas as a subject in the late 1880s and into the 1890s. Through the creation of variants on this theme, he experimented with the pastel medium. In this work, he applied the strokes in many successive layers, juxtaposing shades of chartreuse, green, and blue with pink and orange, perhaps playing with ideas of optical color mixing investigated by his younger contemporaries such as Georges Seurat.