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Partly Draped Model
On View In:
Gallery 344
Artist:   Robert Henri  
Title:   Partly Draped Model  
Date:   c. 1906  
Medium:   Pastel on sandpaper  
Dimensions:   12 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (32.7 x 17.46 cm) (sheet)  
Credit Line:   Gift of funds from David M. Daniels  
Location:   Gallery 344  

Robert Henri was the anti-academic academic. He first rejected classical Realism in favor of Impressionism; finding that equally stultifying, he tried to break down all barriers to creativity. He encouraged his students to seek out new subjects and to paint as they saw fit. For this study of a model, he chose to work on sandpaper, a surface commonly associated with laborious amateur copies of prints. Henri’s work is of wholly different character. For him the abrasive surface picked up ample quantities of dense color applied with exceptional freedom. He drew contour guidelines but did not stick to them. His feverish stokes included zigzags, smears, jabs, and blotches; yet, from this chaos emerges the form of a voluptuous woman.

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Henri, Robert  
Nationality:   American  
Life Dates:   American, 1865 - 1929  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:   Signature; Inscriptions [RH] in graphite, lower left, recto [St. James Press] in graphite, bottom, recto; [7824B] in graphite, right edge, recto Signed with  
Classification:   Drawings  
Creation Place:   North America, United States, , ,  
Accession #:   65.43.3  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts  

 


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