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John Singer Sargent at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sargent and Paris
The exhibition examines a crucial decade in the career of this portraitist of the bourgeoisie, who combined artistic daring ...
The Scandal That Nearly Ruined John Singer Sargent, Gilded Age Society's Favorite Painter
It inspired a blockbuster museum exhibition and the new season of The Gilded Age. But why was the 1884 portrait "Madame X" so shocking?
The early career of American painter John Singer Sargent
"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...
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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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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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Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Sargent ... a decade after he had arrived in Paris as a precocious 18-year-old, John Singer Sargent unveiled a portrait of a Louisiana-born ...
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How John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X’ Turned Paris High Society Upside Down
Now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ... after the painting’s debut, and John Singer Sargent, now an artistic pariah, fled Paris for London, where he began his career ...