The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the work of Bathing the woman, by French impressionist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in his hands. It’s pastel, it is the first, unique and very nice for the Collection is to be acquired.
The newspaper de Volkskrant reports that the Van Gogh Museum, the works, in november last year, six million euro, the head was bought at an auction in New York city.
It was around in 1886, and is made of, and it shows a picture of a naked woman with a sponge to wash it. Bathing women is a part of a dozen or so of work. They are made with oil pastels and images of the female nude.
Vincent van Gogh was a great admirer of Degas, and his work was used by the French artist is influenced by it. The Dutch artist has attended, in 1886, an exhibition of Degas in Paris, which is where the nudes are from the impressionist to be shown.
A spokesman for the Museum, Van Gogh Museum, stated in a press release that the museum will be a “long cherished desire” to have a capital to be naked in a very nice, from the time Of van Gogh, his work and met him in the collection. Bathing the woman is given a permanent place in the museum’s collection.