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An ambitious young artist, an amoral beauty. Hamish Bowles looks at the portrait that caused a scandal and almost ruined two ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.
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Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of the Edwardian era. He ...
In 1884, a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled ... A highlight of the buildup to the portrait of Madame X is her infernal twin, Dr ...
Sargent & Paris,' at the Met, is the moving story of an ambitious young painter prior to his co-option by the ruling class.
The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that ...
It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the most-talked about painter” in the most important nexus of the Western art world, as one critic wrote at the time.
Avegno is an elegant space. The understated bar has a whisper of Parisian style, with its scattering of cafe tables and ...