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A young woman with dark, loosely styled hair stands against a textured, warm olive-brown background, her gaze gently lowered. Her bare shoulders are rendered with soft, luminous skin tones that contrast with the vibrant drape she holds against her chest—a white fabric painted with quick, expressive floral motifs in bright green, purple, yellow, and red. Ramon Casas was a central figure in the Modernisme movement and a celebrated portraitist of the Spanish elite in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this intimate, half-length study, he demonstrates his technical versatility, balancing the delicate, realistic modeling of the subject's face with the rapid, bravura brushwork of the patterned textile. Oil on canvas.