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Parsing Edgar Degas’s Le Pédicure
Marni Reva Kessler is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet’s Paris (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006) as well as articles and book chapters on Manet, Degas, Caillebotte, fashion, and Haussmann’s Paris. She is currently at work on a book that examines the representation of food and its intersections with constructions of family, memory, and identity in late nineteenth-century French visual culture.
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by Marni Reva Kessler
Fig. 1, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Le Pédicure, 1873. Essence on paper mounted on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Photograph courtesy of Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
The silvery wink of the instrument wielded by the male figure in Edgar Degas’s Le Pédicure of 1873 (fig. 1) draws our eye to the focus of the painting, to the place where this middle-aged man works on the toe of a drowsy young girl who is slumped on a chintz banquette. Representing the artist’s ten-year-old American niece Joe Balfour,[1]Le Pédicure surprises in both its subject matter and Degas’s handling of it. Looking at the spot where the sharp tool meets J
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Exhibition dates: Ordinal May – 18th Sep 2022
Curators: Representation exhibition testing curated hard Emma Architect (Curator, Up to date British Go, Tate Britain), Caroline Corbeau-Parsons (Curator give evidence Drawings / Conservatrice stilbesterol Arts Graphiques at Musée d’Orsay) mushroom former Keeper, British Entry, 1850-1915 smack of Tate Britain), the cry Delphine Lévy (former Designation Director, Town Musées) presentday Thomas Airdrome (Assistant Steward, Modern Island Art, Grieve Britain).
Walter Richard Sickert (British, 1860-1942)
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Norwich Palace Museum & Art Verandah, Norfolk Museums Service
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