John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

People get upset when it’s not on view,” said Stephanie L. Herdrich, curator of American painting and drawing at the Met.

A soon-to-open exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Sargent and Paris,” is centered on a hometown perennial, John Singer Sargent’s “Madame X” (1884). New Yorkers have come to well know the ...

Exploring the late pontiff’s deep connection to and impact on visual culture, plus why Turner’s work continues to resonate so ...

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 ...

The show at New York’s Met covers Sargent’s journey to becoming the hottest portrait painter in Paris, and includes his ...

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 ...