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I don't know, the red in the Spanish Dancer painting just seems out of place to me, especially since the color is only somewhat repeated in the apple on the chair. Maybe it is meant to symbolize something or it's just there because he felt like it?!
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I believe that both the red dress at the edge and the less saturated apple(?) in the chair are deliberate compositional devices. As to the exact reasoning and placement, mine would just be a shot in the dim light. However, to extend my guess, I would say that were Sargent here to explain we would hear a definite reasoning for every gram.
Here's a guy, Sargent, who at the time of this painting that follows, could have painted anything and anyone, and yet he felt the need to paint this - a torn down sugar refinery. I would be fascinated to know what compelled him to draw down on this subject.
And an interesting composition with very rich color and texture.
1- A wrecked sugar refinery, w/c 1918, 28x22
2- Val d-Aosta man fishing, oil 1907, 22x28