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Heiress: Sargent's American Portraits – a 'revelatory' glimpse into the Belle Époque
Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...
'There was a real gutsiness about them': How the heiresses dubbed the 'dollar princesses' brought US flair to the UK
The rich, glamorous, American women who married into the English aristocracy faced prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic – ...
Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling
The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.
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Before 'Madame X,' John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent and Paris ... had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born Creole ...
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John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X”
when the twenty-eight-year-old painter John Singer Sargent débuted a new large-scale portrait at the Salon, then the world’s most influential summer art show. Sargent had every reason to feel ...
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John Singer Sargent and the American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Who Rewrote the Rules of Power
Though Sargent painted very few portraits after 1907, he began making sensitive charcoal studies by choice. Both of these drawings, in which Lady Anne Innes-Ker meets the viewer with a serious and ...
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John Singer Sargent exhibition in London shines a light on the lives of the ‘dollar princesses’
To mark 100 years since the death of the painter John Singer Sargent ... tells The Art Newspaper: “It is easy to simply view the [dollar princesses] as merely sitters to Sargent but here ...
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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 ...
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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 I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...
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World’s most scandalous painting returns to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ...
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Once the Stuff of Scandal, John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Draws a Prominent Place in the Met’s ‘Sargent and Paris’
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 ... as portrait studies done in graphite and ...
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John Singer Sargent exhibition in New York charts the star portraitist’s rise
John Singer Sargent ... was the Paris Salon. When Sargent first arrived in Paris, he was an ambitious unknown. “He gets to Paris, he enrols in art lessons, he is young and energetic and really ...