The effect produced by green clothing and a black hat was one that this artist used on several occasions. The lady here is reminiscent of Van Dongen’s wife, but also bears resemblances to other models, from which one might conclude that the subject is a sort of composite image of a femme fatale.
Title:
Woman in a Black Hat
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Technique:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
100x81,5 cm
Acquisition date:
Entered the Hermitage in 1931; handed over from the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow; originally in the Sergei Shchukin collection
Inventory Number:
ГЭ-6572
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