Name: John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits
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Author: Richard Ormond
ISBN: 9781913107468

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John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits

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Physical Book

Publisher

Paul Mellon Centre

Author

Richard Ormond

Language

English

Pages

407

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781913107468

John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits

Richard Ormond (Author) · Paul Mellon Centre · Hardcover

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Synopsis "John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits"

A comprehensive catalogue of Sargent's charcoal portraits, capturing high society, professions, and the arts in an era of profound transformation In comparison with his portraits in oil, John Singer Sargent's charcoal portraits are relatively little known. In this authoritative new volume, Richard Ormond documents the nearly 700 drawings that make up this distinct strand of Sargent's oeuvre. These portraits capture the essence of British and American high society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, portraying an elite clientele that includes aristocracy, royalty, politicians, artists, writers, actors, financiers, and philanthropists. Among Sargent's subjects are such prominent figures as the Astors, Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Du Ponts, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Ethel Barrymore, W. B. Yeats, and Winston Churchill. Though renowned for his paintings of women, these charcoal portraits also reveal Sargent's interest in depicting athletes across a variety of sports, from cricket and fencing to football and polo. This shift in subject matter from prewar to postwar, along with a sparser style characteristic of his charcoal work, casts new light on Sargent's depictions of the period's social landscape. Surviving letters between Sargent and his patrons, reminiscences recorded in contemporary diaries, and David McKibbin's extensive correspondence with sitters, both document the portraits and provide a vivid and human picture of the artist at work. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art