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George Washington Vanderbilt 1890 |
This guy is
a real interesting and eccentric character. He was a supporter of Sargent and commissioned a number of portraits, this being
one of them. In many ways George Vanderbilt defined his generation of what Mark
Twain would call the Gilded Age.
From his
inheritance from his parents he would set out to build the largest private home
in the... | GA | igrkio | |
Gertrude Kingston c. 1905 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in a Leon Bakst costume 1914 Collection of Flora Whitney Miller |
Léon
Bakst helped revolutionize the role of sets and costumes design in dance.
Notes:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending
me notes regarding this image.
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
This
drawing was... | GA | igrkio | |
Girgenti c. 1901 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Girl Fishing at San Vigilio 1913 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Offered not
sold Christies; 5/24/2001; Lot 23; etimated $4,000,000 - $6,000,000
Literature:
William
Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925,
pp. 258-59
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Girl on the Beach, Sketch for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale" 1877 |
La Cancalaise
La
démarche de la Cancalaise est rythmique, balancée. Son corps se
porte, en mesure, de droite à gauche, en un mouvement régulier.
Il semble que la terre lui soit un immense radeau, et qu'elle y marche avec
bonne brise. Il lui faut le panier à poisson passé au bras, il
faut qu'elle ait le poignet sur la hanche, il faut que... | GA | igrkio | |
Girl Reading c. 1900 Manchester City Art Galleries Manchester, UK | GA | igrkio | ||
Girl with a Sickle 1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Girls Gathering Blossoms, Majorca 1908 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | ||
Giudecca c. 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent