stere defiance. I asked her to sit on the model's chair. She got up and sat there in the gesture which is that of the picture. She seems as old and mysterious as the sphinx. When I let her see the picture she said it was 'muy Gitana!' and next day she brought a troop of her friends to see the picture and it was planned to paint her again in some finery she described with enthusiasm but she was off to a chain of fairs before the day set and the second picture was not painted." Henri exhibited The Spanish Gypsy in the 1913 Armory Show. It became the first Ashcan School painting to enter the collection when the Metropolitan purchased it the following year.