$9,000
Robert Henri (American (New York/ Pennsylvania/ Ohio), 1865-1929). "Spanish Girl with Flowers" - 1918, oil on canvas, signed lower right of center. Portrait painting by the Ashcan School artist depicting a Spanish gypsy girl at center at waist length wearing a red scarf over her raven hair, her exposed ears adorned with large gold hoop earrings, her large brown eyes set over a petite nose and smiling red lips with a beaded pendant necklace at her throat, the figure wearing a white dress with blouson short sleeves and a deep v neckline and holding a bunch of gathered wildflowers in the crook of her arm and dangling a single rose from her left fingertips, the figure set before a deep green washed background. Inscribed to verso of canvas with title of painting above artist's name. Inscribed to verso of canvas tacking edge "Sellars Museum, Bert Baum Director, Sellarsville, PA". Framed approximately 36.75" x 31.5", unframed approximately 30.125" x 25". Alternate spelling of artist's name: Robert Henry Cozad Henri. Note: a co-founder of the Ashcan School, Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Thomas Anschutz and Thomas Hovenden, from 1888 to 1891 he went to Paris and attended the Academy Julian and was also accepted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1891 but instead returned to Pennsylvania to study further at the Academy and eventually teach at the Pennsylvania School of Design for Women. After moving to New York in 1902, Henri led the fight Read more…
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2015-06-28
