The Spanish Gypsy, 1912, Oil on canvas, 40 3/4 x 33 in. (103. 5 x 83. 8 cm), Paintings, Robert Henri (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1865?1929 New York), Henri?s model for this painting belonged to a band of Gypsies living on the outskirts of Madrid, where Henri worked during the summer of 1912. He convinced the woman to come to his studio, which, he recalled, ?she entered with austere defiance