Degas and the Nude at the MFA
Degas and the Nude, the utterly absorbing retrospective at the MFA through February 5th, contains no "official" self-portrait by the complicated French genius, I suppose.And yet at the same time it's all a self-portrait, of both the most ravishing and troubling kind.And one I believe has been long overdue. Degas is an artist who has always been admired, but was often relegated to the margins of post-Impressioni…