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Egyptian Water Jars 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Undated
painting, I have included it in 1905 which falls in line with his trip to that
part of the world.
This work
will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent catalogue
raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with
Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff.
Bibliography
W.H.
Downes, J.S. Sargent,... | GA | igrkio | |
Egyptian Woman With Earring 1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, for taking this picture at the Met
(2002) and being a friend of the JSS Gallery. See some of Andy Holzopfel paintings.
Possibly
No. 915 or 916 on Charles Merrill Mount list
| GA | igrkio | |
Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile 1890-91 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | ||
El Jaleo 1882 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA |
Q. What is the meaning of El Jaleo?
I just
viewed a video called American Visions: the Gilded Age, done for PBS in 1997
written and narrated by Robert Hughes. In it he talks about El Jaleo. He says
it means the spontaneous clapping and shouting that comes like an
"Olay!" at the apex of a performance.
So what
we're seeing is the zenith of the... | GA | igrkio | |
Eleanora Duse c. 1893 |
Eleanora
Duse (1859-1924) was the leading Italian actress whom had few peers --
including men. She nearly single handily transformed Italian theater with her
astonishingly sophisticated interpretation of roles in contrast to the more
stilted acting generally seen in that day. By 1892-93 she was at the top of her
career and perfomaing on the world... | GA | igrkio | |
Eleonora Randolph Sears 1921 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Sold Doyle
New York, May 24, 2005, Lot 144, $96,000.
Sold from
the Collection of William J. and Jean Hogan of Bronxville, New York. The Hogan
Collection was assembled predominantly during the 1950s through the 1970s and
offers works by a number of prominent American and European artists. Jean Hogan
studied nuclear physics and joined IBM... | GA | igrkio | |
Eleutherios Venizelos 1924 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Eleutherios (Kyriakos) Venizelos, (1864-1936) Greek statesman and prime
minister (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), born in Mourniés,
Crete, Greece.
He studied law in Athens, led the Liberal Party in the Cretan chamber of
deputies, and took a prominent part in the Cretan rising against the Turks in
1896. As prime minister of Greece, he... | GA | igrkio | |
Elizabeth Allen Marquand (Mrs. G. Marquand) 1887 |
Henry G.
Marquand was a banker who made his money financing railroads for the
Vanderbilts and others. Both his wife and he were active in the arts, avid
collectors and possessed some of the finest Van Dycks in the United States, an
incredible array of Roman bronzes, and a superb collection of Chinese
porcelains.
In 1884,
the Marquands had... | GA | igrkio | |
Elizabeth Asquith "mug" (later Elizabeth Bibesco) 1914 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Paul Darby
darby
and joan1@yahoo.com
Date:
Sat, 22 May 2004
After 24
years my wife and I finally had a chance to visit her home in Paris from which
her daughter had recently been removed to a nursing home. We met a relative who
by chance was in town and looked around the apartment - it was a kind of shrine
to Elizabeth Asquith... | GA | igrkio | |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 1900 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2003, no. 384.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent