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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 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 ...
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?
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Did John Singer Sargent Make a Cameo in 'The Gilded Age'?
HBO’s high-society drama just introduced the portraitist who knew how to flatter the one percent better than anyone.
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John Singer Sargent’s Scandalous “Madame X” - The New Yorker
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Before ‘Madame X,’ John Singer Sargent was even more dazzling
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. May 31, 2025.