Woman with Three Girls
József Rippl-Rónai
European Art
Like many academic and avant-garde artists, the Hungarian painter Rippl-Rónai traveled to Brittany in the late 1880s, drawn by the abiding traditions of the French province. Several years after his return to Hungary, Rippl-Rónai painted this scene of a woman and three girls in Breton costume, perhaps also evocative of traditional Hungarian dress. In his rendering of the lush foliage, the artist demonstrates his embrace of flatness and dense patterning, hallmarks of the group of painters called the Nabis. With this formal technique, Rippl-Rónai endows his picture with an intimacy appropriate to a moment shared by a mother and her daughters.
MEDIUM
Oil on board
DATES
ca. 1909
DIMENSIONS
24 1/8 x 36 3/4 in. (61.3 x 93.3 cm)
frame: 31 x 43 1/2 x 2 in. (78.7 x 110.5 x 5.1 cm)
(show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right, on red table cloth: "Rónai"
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
ACCESSION NUMBER
1994.68
CREDIT LINE
Designated Purchase Fund
RIGHTS STATEMENT
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CAPTION
József Rippl-Rónai (Hungarian, 1861-1927). Woman with Three Girls, ca. 1909. Oil on board, 24 1/8 x 36 3/4 in. (61.3 x 93.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 1994.68 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1994.68_PS9.jpg)
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