Portrait of Maria
Artist
Victor Higgins
(American, 1884 - 1949)
Date1932-1935
Mediumoil on plaster board
DimensionsImage: 20 1/16 × 14 3/8 in. (51 × 36.5 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of Joan Higgins Reed, 1983
Object number1983.12.11
DescriptionPortrait of a woman wearing a dark grey dress and a red necklace. The subject has short dark hair and bangs, her lips are parted, she is facing head on and it is a one third length portraiteMuseum Notes
In Portrait of Maria, Victor Higgins sought to capture likeness but also reduced forms to their essence through a subtle abstraction. The sitter is not identified but may have been Maria Ignacita, who has been identified tentatively as the model for several paintings.
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