Seated Nude Woman Drying Her Hair (Femme nue assise s'essuyant les cheveux)  1902

Degas revisited the theme of the bather again and again between 1877 and 1908; this is one of the most radical examples, with its cropped composition, subdued colors, and harder, less sensuous form. Here the artist, who since 1895 had been struggling with deteriorating eyesight, recycled an earlier figure similar to the one in Woman Drying Her Hair (nearby), but cropped th...