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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Violette de Mazia was a legendary teacher at the Barnes for over 60 years and served as director of education after the death of Albert Barnes in 1951. Not much is known about this work—when it was made or what inspired it—but in it we can see de Mazia's interest in using line to represent the curvilinear forms of a hairless figure in profile.

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