Gipsy with a Cigarette
by MANET, Edouard, Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm
Manet’s Spanish period reached its culmination around 1862. For Manet, the attraction of Gipsy with a Cigarette was not just the costume and pose, but a natural bravado. Gypsy was a thoroughly modern subject: a liberated woman unafraid of taboos, colourful and spontaneous.