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Date : 1875
Sizes : 1.2 m x 1 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn Memorial Collection (1933)
| Henri Degas and His Niece Lucie Degas
Item 2 on 13
French Painting
Painting
Area related
France
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This portrait of Degas's uncle Henri de Gas and his first cousin Lucie de Gas was probably painted in the summer of 1875, the year after both Degas's father and Lucie's father had died. The artist captured his bereaved relatives dressed in mourning almost photographically, in the midst of their domestic routine. A triumph of silhouetted forms and carefully observed gestures, this subtle addresses basic questions of loneliness, death, and the fragile continuities of family in the modern world.
Degas limited his palette to yellows, browns, black, and white, and applied the paint in long, straight strokes, deliberately leaving some areas of the canvas unresolved.
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