©Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City

Woman drying her hair after the bath

[Femme s'essuyant les cheveux après le bain]

MS : 1430
Museum
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City - Missouri - Etats-Unis
Inv. 35-39/1

The Artwork
Dimensions
34 × 24.7 cm - 13 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.
Period
Circa 1885
Medium
Pastel et craie noire
Support
Papier
Signature
en haut à gauche : Degas

Additional information

History

Atelier Degas - Durand-Ruel & Cie, Paris (Stock n° 3365) - William Rockhill Nelson, 1896-1915 - Laura Nelson Kirkwood, Kansas City, 1915-1926 - Irwin Kirkwood, Kansas City, 1927 - Laura Nelson Kirkwood Residuary Trust, 1927-1928 - Nelson Atkins University Trustees - Vendu au Lowe's Cinema Corporation, Los Angeles, 1928 - Herbert M. Woolf, Kansas City, circa 1928 - Mrs David M. Lighton, Kansas City, 1928-1935 - Nelson-Atkins Museum, 1935 (Don Mrs David M. Lighton).

Exhibitions

Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art et Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1960, Anatomy and Art, n° 60 - Saint-Louis, City Art Museum, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 132 - Philadelphie, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 132 - Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, 1967, Drawings by Degas, n° 132 - Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, 1969, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, n° 28 - Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, 1994, Edgar Degas: The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist, n° 4 - Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art, 1994, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, n° 28 - Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, 1994, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, n° 28 - Tulsa, The Philbrook Museum of Art, 1996, Dürer to Matisse : Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, n° 74 - Jacksonville, The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, 1996, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, n° 74 - Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum, 2007, Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper (Sans catalogue).

Bibliography

News Flashes, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, mai 1935, n° 11 - The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts : Founders and Benefactors, 1940, p. 24 - Taggart, Handbook of the Collections of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, 1959, p. 122 (repr.) - "Anatomy and Art", The Nelson-Atkins Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin, 1960, n° 1, p. 21 - Boggs, Cat. exp. Saint-Louis, City Art Museum, 1966, pp. 199-200 (repr.) - "Degas the Draughtman", Apollo, février 1967, p. 129 (repr.) - Ittman, "Drawings by Degas", Master Drawings, n° 2, novembre 1967, pp. 195-196 - McCanagh, Cat. exp. Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, 1969, Mary Cassatt Among the Impressionists, pp. 38, 72 (repr.) - Mongan, Cat. exp. Memorial Exhibition : Works of Art from rhe Collection of J. Paul Sachs given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, (n.p.) - Taggart, Mc Kenna, Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, 1973, vol. 1, pp. 176, 188 (repr.) - Brame, Reff, 1984, n° 114, repr. p. 125 - Ward, Weil, Cat. exp. Master drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Saint- Louis, Washington University, 1989, pp. 6, 10, 36 (repr.) - Corbett, "Connoiseur's World Power Lines", Connoisseur, n° 934, novembre 1989, p. 44 - "Special Exhibitions : Master Drawings", Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), mars 1990, (repr.) - Wilkin, Cat. exp. Dayton Art Institute, 1994, Edgar Degas : The Many Dimensions of a Master French Impressionist, pp. 48, 162 (repr.) - Ward, Cat. exp. Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996, Dürer to Matisse, pp. 10, 225-227 (repr.) - Haudiquet, De Delacroix à Marquet, Donation Senn-Fould. Dessins, 2001, p. 198, 200 (repr.) - Le Havre, musée d'art moderne André Malraux, 2011, De Delacroix à Marquet. Donation Senn-Foulds, fig. 87.1, repr. p. 198.

Last updated : 16/08/2026

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