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Hair combing by Edgar Degas

Hair combing by Edgar Degas

“Combing the hair” – a painting written in the late period of creativity, and when it was created, the artist used several sketches, as well as one of the works performed by pastel earlier.

In the period of mature creativity, Degas still continued creative experiments, and this canvas – to that testimony. Courage consists in monochrome letters, and the original interpretation of the plot.

Degas himself said that a woman is interested in him as an integral object, so he constantly noticed the actions, the mood of the fair sex, how they behave in different situations.

The artist did not aspire to depict only the “front” side of life of women representing the world of art, so he tried to get behind the scenes rather than staying in the audience with the audience, to watch the future characters of his works. The appearance of Degas in the make-up dancers did not bother anyone, and was not surprising, here he was “his”.

The behavior of dancers, especially moments before their appearance on the stage, Degas became very interested after his return from America.

For some time the canvas belonged to Matisse.

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