Woman Drying Her Foot, 1885?86, Pastel on buff wove paper, affixed to original pulpboard mount, 19 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (50. 2 x 54 cm), Drawings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), In this pastel and another of 1885?86 (Musee d'Orsay, Paris) Degas explored the expressive potential of a bather doubled-up, snail-like, drying her foot. The blue, yellow, and green harmonies in the two works are typical of many of his bather pastels, but the hues here are more high-keyed