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“This canvas belongs to a group of pictures in which Degas painted women looking at art in museums. In reference to another work in the series, the perversely contradictory and impish Degas nonetheless remarked to British painter Walter Sickert that he wanted to ‘give the idea of that bored and respectfully crushed and impressed absence of sensation that women experience in front of paintings.’”

“This canvas belongs to a group of pictures in which Degas painted women looking at art in museums. In reference to another work in the series, the perversely contradictory and impish Degas nonetheless remarked to British painter Walter Sickert that he wanted to ‘give the idea of that bored and respectfully crushed and impressed absence of sensation that women experience in front of paintings.’”

  1. spitfiretommy reblogged this from leoncrawl and added:
    i also read this wall text
  2. seedz reblogged this from leoncrawl and added:
    So that’s what those benches are for.
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