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Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Beach at Low Tide (Mouth of the River)

1869
Pastel on light brown wove paper
23.2 × 30.7 cm (9.1 × 12.1 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Edgar Degas visited the coast of Normandy in the autumn of 1869 and was inspired to create over 40 small-scale landscape pastels. This particular sheet is one of the very best of this group: clearly articulated and unusual in being signed and dated, it is the only seascape that Degas relinquished during his lifetime.

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