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The girl is combing her hair by Mary Cassatt

The girl is combing her hair by Mary Cassatt

The misunderstanding that occurred in 1917 with the picture “The girl is combing her hair,” was a pleasant experience for Cassatt, because her work was taken for the work of Degas. In fact, the artist urged her friend to give him this painting, exhibited at the eighth exhibition of the Impressionists. In 1886, the enthusiastic Degas could not admire this work, believing that a woman is not given such a masterful mastery of the brush.

Degas, a friend and teacher of Cassatt, seriously influenced her work, and many of her works are similar to the works of a mentor, but it is in this picture that the two styles are most similar in style.

Both artists worked independently on the story of women who wash themselves, while the approaches to revealing the topic differed significantly, and if the heroines of Cassatt’s works were depicted with warmth and sympathy, then Degas “toilet work” reduced the woman, to his “animal’s level.”

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