1895 (ca.), Edgar Degas, After the Bath -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: This anonymous, contemporary woman in the ordinary, private act of bathing is one of Degas's most modern images. In contrast with the tension of the figures purposefully awkward pose, Degas built a surface of surprisingly sensuous tactility, at times using his fingers. Abandoning line and naturalistic detail in favor of the manipulation of intense color, Degas managed to endow this woman with both monumentality and vulnerability.
1895 (ca.), Edgar Degas, After the Bath -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: This anonymous, contemporary woman in the ordinary, private act of bathing is one of Degas's most modern images. In contrast with the tension of the figures purposefully awkward pose, Degas built a surface of surprisingly sensuous tactility, at times using his fingers. Abandoning line and naturalistic detail in favor of the manipulation of intense color, Degas managed to endow this woman with both monumentality and vulnerability.