TitlePortrait of Maja in Dark Blue
Artist
Robert Henri
(1865 - 1929)
Date1903
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 31 7/8 × 25 1/2 in.
Framed: 42 5/8 × 36 11/16 × 3 in.
SignedSigned at lower right: "Robert Henri 1903 / Robert Henri". Reverse: upper right in black paint: "Robert Henri / N.Y. City 1903"; top right, black paint: "15B", repeated again sideways; reverse on left stretcher, center: "Robert Henri".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, December 3, 1906
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number557-P
Label TextBeginning in the first decade of the 20th-century, Henri devoted his attention almost exclusively to portraiture and figure painting. In contrast to many of his contemporaries of the turn of the 19th-century, Henri was less concerned with his models’ physical beauty than with their spirit and personality. Henri treats his model Maja with obvious delight and warmth. His diploma painting of 1903 is characteristic of his works of 1900-1910 in its spot-lit treatment of form, dark background and fluid brushwork.
