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Edgar Degas

Woman Drying her Left Leg, 1903

  • Author:
    Edgar Degas
  • Bio:
    Paris, França, 1834-1917
  • Title:
    Woman Drying her Left Leg
  • Date:
    1903
  • Medium:
    Carvão e pastel sobre papel
  • Dimensions:
    61 x 51 x 1 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação Henryk Spitzman-Jordan, 1952
  • Object type:
    Pintura
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.00084
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa
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The pastel Woman Drying Left Leg is thought to be preparatory for another similar one (80 x 71 cm.), whereabouts unknown. The aspects of the female nude, seen in a Woman Drying Left Arm (After Bath), are again taken up here, unchanged. Again an equally memorable passage from Valéry discovers the meaning of the model for Degas, who becomes something of an anti-Olympia: “Il [Degas] ne chercha pas à établir sur un lit quelque obscène et souveraine Olympia, brutale comme un fait. Mais il s’acharna à reconstruire l’animal féminin spécialisé, esclave de la danse, ou de l’empois, ou du trottoir; et ces corps, plus ou moins déformés. font songer que tout le système mécanique d’un être vivant peut grimacer comme un visage Cette sensibilité mimique, où se trouve quelque misogynie, ne mettait aucune complaisance à embellir ses modèles. Son noir regard ne voyait rien en rose”.

— Unknown authorship, 1998

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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