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Violinist and Young Woman
Violinist and Young Woman
Edgar Degas, 1834–1917
She looks up from the score; he tunes, mid-phrase, and the picture stays deliberately unfinished at the edges — Degas leaving the canvas raw where a lesser painter would have tidied. It is music painted as an interruption, by the artist who understood better than anyone that rehearsal is more interesting than performance.