Degas Pastel Drawings: Woman Stepping into a Tub

Description: The Pastel Drawings of Edgar Degas Woman Stepping into a Tub, c.1890 Edgar Degas, (1834-1917) Fine Art Reproductions Reproduction Size: 14 x 11.7 inches These reproductions are new, individually printed and proofed, superior quality, giclee* process, fine art prints. They are printed on 100% cotton rag acid-free, heavyweight fine art paper with a luxurious textured watercolor paper finish and archival pigment inks to ensure permanence. Created for collectors, these ARE NOT POSTERS or mass produced prints on low quality, inexpensive paper. Edgar Degas remains the most important pastel painter in world art. He greatly advanced pastel's total range of effects. Following the opening of trade with Japan in 1854, many French artists, including Degas, were increasingly influenced by Japanese art especially the woodcut masters Hokasai and Hiroshige and their flattened compositions and bright colors. Complimenting Degas’ prodigious body of drawings of ballet dancers were his pastels of women bathers. These pastel drawings capture women bathing, sponging, drying, combing and having their hair combed. Almost always alone or occasionally with a maid, the women are undressed with their backs to the viewer and faces turned away. These are not traditional portraits, but sensitive studies, capturing the private moments of women at toilette. Always pushing to make his colors luminescent, he experimented with crosshatching, paints and pastel; he combined pastel with every medium, and surfaces of paper, cardboard and canvas. He mixed his pastels with gouache and watercolor, and steamed them to soften pigments. Deteriorating vision in the 1890s led to eventual blindness and the end of his career as an artist. He died in 1917 at the age of eighty-three. Original Medium: Pastels on paper. Reproduction: Fine Art Paper; colored pigment inks Image Size: 14 x 11.7 inches printed on larger 16 x 13 inch paper to allow ample borders for matting and framing) About Our Prints The brilliant colors and fine line detail of our reproductions offer the best quality for price performance available online or in shops today. We guarantee that you will be pleased with the superior quality of our prints and encourage you to review our detailed feedback profile comments from past buyers: “Gorgeous, superior quality prints.” “Definitely the best print I have ever bought on Ebay” “Its beautiful! Great addition to my collection.” I invite you to view the other superior quality prints I also have on sale in my eBay Store, Da Vinci Art Prints or by clicking on ‘See other items’ at the top of this listing. Please email me with any questions **the giclee process produces a superior quality, fine art reproduction from a high-resolution digital file of an image. The file is then printed with a high-resolution photo generation printer on a fine art paper. Most artists and working photographers today use the giclee process to produce reproductions of their original artwork and photographs. As with any original art or fine art reproduction, it is recommended that prints are framed and displayed under glass to prevent color fade or shift over the years. Shipping Policy: Combined Shipping Costs on Multiple Print Orders Since I offer multiple Fine Art Reproductions on eBay concurrently, I combine orders to reduce your mailing costs. For multiple print orders please request invoice that will include final shipping and handling charges. US First Class Mail & First Class Mail International Prints ship in a premium quality, heavy protective cardboard tube, US First Class Mail or US First Class Mail International.

Price: 14.99 USD

Location: Lincroft, New Jersey

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