Room 7: Towards abstraction

Contains: 'Maid untangling hair (Suivante démêlant des cheveux)' c 1891 first state of two, edition of one lithograph touched with ink 21.5 x 23 (image) 25.1 x 29.9 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris res Dc 327dh fol, boîte 6 Reed and Shapiro 60 / Adhémar 47 'Woman combing her hair at the bath (Femme à la baignoire se coiffant)' 1887–90 pastel on paper 66 x 46 cm Mildura Arts Centre Collection, Mildura M51 Senator RD Elliott Bequest, presented to the City of Mildura, by Mrs Hilda Elliot, 1956 Lemoisne 1173 'The bath (Le bain)' 1895 or before charcoal and pastel on paper 32.1 x 25.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 29.100.186 HO Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs HO Havemeyer, 1929 Vente III: 312 / Lemoisne 1946 Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art 'Women ironing (Les repasseuses)' c 1878 second impression of two monotype in black ink on paper, touched up with charcoal, 22.5 x 42.8 cm (plate), 23.5 x 42.8 cm (sheet) Bibliothèque de l’institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris EM DEGAS 13 Collections Jacques Doucet Janis 259 / Cachin 55 'Woman ironing, set against the light (Repasseuse à contre-jour)' begun c 1876, completed c 1887 oil on canvas 81.3 x 66 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1972.74.1 Collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon Lemoisne 685 Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington 'After the bath, woman drying herself (Après le bain, femme s’essuyant)' 1892 oil on canvas 75.5 x 86 cm The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, on long term loan to the Princeton University of Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey L.1988.62.10 Lemoisne 1117 Photographer: Bruce M White © Trustees of Princeton University