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The bath is reminiscent of earlier works by Drysdale: the interior composition with a central figure, back to the viewer and looking out of a window, is similar to Monday morning. Drysdale's technique, however, ranging from a rapid application of paint to the delicate cross-hatching of the brickwork outside the window, is now more sophisticated. A sensual subject of a woman at her toilette, The bath includes particularly naturalistic and intimate elements, such as the pink corsets strewn over the back of a chair and the toilet bowl in the lower right-hand corner. | ||||||
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