Inspired in large part by two well-known paintings that caused quite a stir at their unveilings, Mark Arts’ current major exhibition focuses on fashion in fine art. “The jumping off point is ...

One of the great painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Singer ... became known as Madame X, crippled Sargent's hopes of establishing himself as a portrait painter in Paris.

John Singer Sargent in his Paris studio, c. 1885, with his "scandalous" portrait of Madame Gautreau, aka Madame X. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution "It is a very simple truth ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show “Sargent and Paris” (April 27–August 3) explores John Singer Sargent’s early career ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where art historian Elizabeth Block works, there’s always a crowd near John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884 ... at such historic portraits of women.