Woman with a Towel, 1894 or 1898, Pastel on cream-colored wove paper with red and blue fibers throughout, 37 3/4 x 30in. (95.9 x 76.2cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Degas used his fingers, brushes, and sharp implements to smudge, scrape, and polish this pastel, creating a sense of movement and texture, and revealing layers of brilliant color. Black outlines drawn over the pastel emphasize the contrapposto turn of the muscular and monumental nude
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Woman, Towel, 1894, 1898, Pastel, cream-colored wove paper, red, blue fibers, 37 3/4 x 30in, 95.9 76.2cm, Drawings, Edgar Degas, French, Paris, 1834–1917, Degas, fingers, brushes, sharp implements, smudge, scrape, polish, pastel, creating, sense, movement, texture, revealing layers, brilliant color, Black outlines drawn, pastel emphasize, contrapposto turn, muscular, monumental nude
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