John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882; Complete Paintings: Volume IV
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John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882; Complete Paintings: Volume IV Details
About the Author Richard Ormond is a Sargent scholar and an independent art historian. He is author or co-author of books on Sargent, Landseer, Winterhalter, and Lord Leighton, and he is a great-nephew of John Singer Sargent. Elaine Kilmurray, co-author and research director of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné project, was co-curator of the exhibition Sargent and Italy in 2002–3 and of the Sargent retrospective which opened at the Tate, London, in 1998. Read more
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I have to admit I love Sargent's work. Sure he traveled in effete circles, didn't starve to produce his art and didn't cut off any appendages in a fit of passion. But he was a heck of a painter and whether one views his portraits, landscapes, watercolors or oils you see talent born of years of practice. Living a childhood as a nomad traveling Europe with his parents, taught to paint watercolors following his mother's example and encouragement, he developed into a phenomenon of talent. And this book exposes the reader to a selection of those skills. Only complaint is that in an effort to present the entire works of Sargent through a series of books, no one book by the authors will have all of Sargent's most famous works. This one is very good however, for Sargent's portraits included are among his best.If you like Sargest and dream of having all the books by these authors, this is a good one to start with.
