Dame+en+Deuil

Date: ca. 1910
 * [[image:http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?id=http://americanart.si.edu/images/1966/1966.49.2_1a.jpg&max=460 width="160" height="246" link="@http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=2877"]] || Title: **Dame en Deuil**

Artist: **Romaine Brooks** Born: Rome, Italy 1874 Died: Nice, France 1970

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 36 1/8 x 24 1/8 in. (91.8 x 61.3 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the artist

Accession: 1966.49.2 || 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.
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//The Art of Romaine Brooks//, 2016
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SAAM Collections Page Artist Biography
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