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John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’
The show at Kenwood House features 18 portraits of American heiresses who came over to the UK to marry into aristocracy—with ...
‘Sargent and Paris’ Review: At the Met, a Painter’s Brilliant Beginnings
An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist ...
National Review5d
John Singer Sargent, the Ultimate American in Paris
I’m relieved to confess something I’ve believed from my earliest days as an art historian. John Singer Sargent is a great artist. Great not only as in eye-catching, dazzling, eminent, and profound, ...
MutualArt.com23d
John Singer Sargent
An exhibition featuring his scandalous portrait ‘Madame X’ highlights John Singer Sargent’s early mastery as an expat artist in the City of Light. The American Art Fair returns to the historic ...
Artnet29d
How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down
But the damage had been done. Gautreau’s reputation was tarnished, if not ruined for some years, after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent, now an artistic pariah, fled Paris for ...
Hyperallergic22d
The Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent was just 18 when he arrived in Paris in 1874. In the ensuing decade, he would not only launch his career as a painter, exhibiting and earning accolades at multiple salons ...
New York Sun26d
Once the Stuff of Scandal, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Draws a Prominent Place in the Met’s ‘Sargent and Paris’
The novelist and critic Henry James, putting it with typical delicacy, stated that the notorious painting “had not the good fortune to please the public at large.” John Singer Sargent, ‘Dr. Pozzi at ...
The New York Times19d
Sargent and ‘Madame X’ Return, Notorious as Ever
By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute portrait painter John Singer Sargent is often identified as an American, but he belonged to no one country. Born in Florence, Italy, to expat parents ...
The Boston Globe18d
The education of John Singer Sargent
NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition ... reintroduces a familiar artist as a gifted naif, hungrily ...