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Nude Arranging Her Hair
Edouard Manet French
Not on view
Unfinished and unsigned, this is one of two oil paintings of the female nude that Manet attempted near the end of his life. A continuation of the theme of the feminine toilette first treated in Nana, here, a nude woman sits at the edge of a canopy bed fixing her hair. Whereas Nana gazes directly at the viewer while simultaneously being looked at by her patron, this figure, with her head turned in profile, is seemingly alone, caught in a private moment. Manet’s brother Eugène and sister-in-law Berthe Morisot acquired this painting at Manet’s estate sale.
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