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Sargent : portraits of artists and friends

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Sargent : portraits of artists and friends / Richard Ormond, with Elaine Kilmurray ; with contributions by Trevor Fairbrother, Babara Dayer Gallati, Erica E. Hirshler, Marc Simpson and H. Barbara Weinberg.

Author

Ormond, Richard

Publication

London : The National Portrait Gallery, [2015]
©2015

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Description

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 32 cm

Summary

Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances, influences and aspirations. This volume aims to explore these friendships in depth and draw out their significance in the story of Sargent's life and the development of his art. The book is structured chronologically, with sections arranged according to the places in which Sargent worked and formed relationships during his cosmopolitan career: Paris, London, New York, Italy and the Alps. The cast of characters includes famous names, among them Gabriel Fauré and Auguste Rodin, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. But the authors also make their point with images of Sargent's intimate friends, such as the artists Jane and Wilfrid de Glehn, who accompanied him on his sketching expeditions to the Continent, and the Italian painter Ambrogio Raffele, a recurrent model inhis Alpine studies. In such paintings, Sargent explored the making of art (his own included) and the relationship of the artist to the natural world. These are examples of an absorbing range of images and personalities, all distinguished in one way or another for their astistry, and all linked by friendship and a shared aesthetic to the central figure of Sargent himself. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (12.2.-25.5.2015); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA (30.6.-4.10.2015).

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Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, February 12 - May 25, 2015, and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 29 - October 4, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 249) and index.

Call Number

JQG 15-221

ISBN

9781855146006
1855146002
9781855145450
1855145456
9780847845279 (Skira Rizzoli)
0847845273 (Skira Rizzoli)

LCCN

2014952833

OCLC

891031474

Author

Ormond, Richard, author.

Title

Publisher

London : The National Portrait Gallery, [2015]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 249) and index.

Added Author

Kilmurray, Elaine, author.

Fairbrother, Trevor J., contributor.

Weinberg, H. Barbara (Helene Barbara), 1942-

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

JQG 15-221

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