This unfinished painting resulted when a seamstress Brooks had hired unexpectedly arrived in full mourning attire. The juxtaposition of the sitter’s solemnity and Brooks’s rapidly applied brushwork over an acidic green foundation imparts a sense of introspection and reflection. When the woman later returned in her best outfit, Brooks abandoned the painting.
The Art of Romaine Brooks, 2016
- Title
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Dame en Deuil
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1910
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 36 1⁄8 x 24 1⁄8 in. (91.8 x 61.3 cm.)
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the artist
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Portrait female – unidentified – waist length
- State of being – emotion – sorrow
- Object Number
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1966.49.2
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
