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PASTELS Exhibition at Musée d'Orsay. From Millet to Redon

Edouard Manet: La femme au chapeau noir (Irma Brunner) (Woman with black hat)  ca1880/2 In the above pastel portrait, Manet uses just a few colours to create the image of a sophisticated seductive lady. The pastels exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay ended in July. It added breadth to the concurrent Manet/Degas exhibit which is now in New York until Jan 7th 2024. Works on show included those two great masters, but also Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Odilon Redon, Symbolist Lévy-Dhurmer and others.  Claude Monet: Waterloo Bridge in London 1900 Working rapidly, whilst waiting for a crate of art materials to arrive, Claude Monet captured the foggy atmosphere on the Thames. As in the Manet portrait above, a restricted range of colours conjures up the scene. Monet rarely used pastel, unlike Degas: Edgar Degas: Chez la Modiste (At the Milliner's) ca 1905-1910 Degas frequently took inspiration from women and their fashions. An earlier pastel shows a realistic nude portrait, where ...