The MET in New York City just closed a fantastic exhibition of rarely scene works by John Singer Sargent. The exhibition was outstanding, the MET writes –
Throughout his career, the celebrated American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) created portraits of artists, writers, actors, and musicians, many of whom were his close friends. Because these works were rarely commissioned, he was free to create images that were more radical than those he made for paying clients. He often posed these sitters informally—in the act of painting, singing, or performing, for example. Together, the portraits constitute a group of experimental paintings and drawings—some of them highly charged, others sensual, and some of them intimate, witty, or idiosyncratic. The exhibition Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, which opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 30, brings together about 90 of these distinctive portraits, including numerous loans from private collections. It will also explore in depth the friendships between Sargent and those who posed for him as well as the significance of these relationships to his life and art.
Here is a selection of our favorite works from the exhibition.
John Singer Sargent, An Artist in His Studio (Ambrogio Raffele), 1904.
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John Singer Sargent, Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885.
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John Singer Sargent, Pailleron Children, 1880.
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John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889.
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