Though it offers little in the way of Sargent’s artistic engagement with the city he called home for a decade, “Dazzling ...

In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and ...

John Singer Sargent, "Madame X" (1883–84), oil paint on canvas; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence; all images courtesy Tate) LONDON — “Will ...

Assembling more than 90 works, many of which are returning to France for the first time since their creation, the exhibition John Singer Sargent. Dazzling Paris at the Orsay Museum in Paris – the ...

In 2022, the heirs of John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) made a major donation spread across seven museums in the U.S. and the U.K. These works were not by the famed Gilded Age society portraitist, but ...

Like a swank ocean liner of a bygone era, the John Singer Sargent exhibition, "Sargent and Spain," at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (Feb.11-May 14) from the National Gallery in Washington, is a ...

A visitor to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston contemplates John Singer Sargent's painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A massive masterpiece by famed painter John ...

He was only 18 years old in 1874, when he moved with his American expatriate family from Florence to Paris, intent on becoming an artist. It didn’t take long. By 1882, he was John Singer Sargent, “the ...

“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale. By Karen Rosenberg The preternaturally astute portrait ...

At a retrospective of his portraits in London, where the American expatriate fled after creating a scandal in Paris, clothes offer both armor and self-expression. By Emily LaBarge The critic Emily ...

“Detestable! Boring! Curious! Monstrous!” the crowds shouted. “Madame X” (pictured) scandalised visitors to the Paris Salon in 1884, with her heavy make-up and tight black gown whose strap was ...