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Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends Hardback - 2015

by Richard Ormond; Elaine Kilmurray (); Contribution by Trevor Fairbrother

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From the publisher

WINNER of the W. E. Fischelis Award from the Victorian Society in America.

Accompanying a major exhibition, this is the first book devoted to the career of this renowned American painter through his brilliant portraits. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was one of the leading painters of his generation, whose captivating portraits are universally admired for their insight into character, radiance of light and color, and painterly fluency and immediacy. This unprecedented book showcases Sargent's cosmopolitan career in a new light--through his bold portraits of artists, writers, actors, and musicians, many of them his close friends--giving us a picture of the artist as an intellectual and connoisseur of the music, art, and literature of his day. Whether depicted in well-appointed interiors or en plein air, the cast of characters includes many famous subjects, among them Claude Monet, Auguste Rodin, Gabriel Faur, Vaslav Nijinsky, W. B. Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Henry James. Structured thematically and according to the places Sargent worked and lived--Paris, London, New York, Italy, and the Alps--this book unites informative essays by noted scholars with a wealth of imagery to offer fresh insights into Sargent's life and work.

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  • Title Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends
  • Author Richard Ormond; Elaine Kilmurray (); Contribution by Trevor Fairbrother
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition, 1st
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Skira Rizzoli, NEW YORK
  • Publication date 2015-03-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780847845279 / 0847845273
  • Weight 4.48 lbs (2.03 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.25 x 10 x 1.08 in (31.12 x 25.40 x 2.74 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Artists - Portraits, Sargent, John Singer
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014952833
  • Dewey Decimal Code 759.13

About the author

Richard Ormond is Samuel H. Kress Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and coauthor, with Elaine Kilmurray, of the Sargent catalogue raisonn. Trevor Fairbrother is an independent art curator. Barbara Dayer Gallati is curator emerita, American Art, Brooklyn Museum. Erica Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Marc Simpson is an independent art historian and curator. H. Barbara Weinberg is the former curator of American paintings and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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