Dare we say that we like this better than the original? A Robert Henri would be a very serious and exciting find but looking at too many of his remarkable portraits becomes a little indigestible, and this, paying some homage to Henri’s interest in Matisse, has a soothing spareness about it in comparison. It is an extremely attractive painting that has been removed from a hideous not-original frame and is scheduled for re-mounting and framing. The current price is for the painting unframed.
 
Robert Henri, 1865-1929, was a highly influential American painter and teacher. As a young man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly with the Impressionists, and determined to lead an even more dramatic revolt against American academic art, as reflected by the conservative National Academy of Design. Together with a small team of enthusiastic followers, he pioneered the Ashcan School of American realism, depicting urban life in an uncompromisingly brutalist style. By the time of the Armory Show, America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism in 1913, Henri was mindful that his own representational technique was being made to look dated by new movements such as Cubism, though he was still ready to champion avant-garde painters such as Henri Matisse and Max Weber.  (Tate website)