Girl in Red Shawl

From his academic training and exposure to Impressionism, Cubism, and Fauvism during his stay in Paris, to his immersion in small villages of the American Southwest and the remote areas of the Gobi desert, Gaspard developed a distinct style of painting that enchantingly captured his daily interactions with each region's people. Girl in Red Shawl dates to the artist's stay in Mongolia in the early 1920s. A testament to Gaspard's skill as a portraitist the immediately intimate and engaging nature of the present work is magnified by the sitter's close proximity and outward gaze.