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 | Mrs. Wilton Phipps 1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Architectural Sketch of the Reform Club, London possibly 1884 | 
The Reform
Club in London was started around the time of the Reform Bill (1830- 32). The
members consisted of the Liberal members of the two Houses of Parliament and
some distinguished members of the public. The club, itself was (and still is)
located on the Pall Mall, between the Travellers' Club and the Canton Club. The
building was built from... | GA | igrkio |
 | Madame X 1884 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
When Madame
X was shown at the Salon of 1884 it became instantly a salacious painting and a
scandal in French society as a result of its sexual suggestiveness of her pose
and the pail pasty color of her skin. The "X" of Madame X was
actually Madame Gautreau (1859-1915) who’s reputation was apparently destroyed and
John left France shortly to... | GA | igrkio |
 | Unfinished copy of Madane X 1884 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mrs. Kate Moore 1884 |
A
millionairess from Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kate Moore (1846 -1917) became one of the
leading figures in Paris high society especially among the expatiate Americans.
She lavishly entertained. Sargent, no doubt was an invited guest to some. He
would paint her a number of times. She was 38 at the time of this painting.
Although certainly a good... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Katharine Moore 1884 Musee d'Orsay Paris, France |
Mrs. Kate Moore
Notes:
Bibliography
Léonce
Bénédite , Le Musée du Luxembourg, peinture école
étrangères. Musée annexe du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 1924,
n°65;
Charles
Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, New York, Norton 1955, p. 82;
Charles
Merril Mount, John Singer Sargent, Londres, 1957, n°843;
Cat. exp.
J. S.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Melle Judith Gautier a la Fourberie c. 1883-1885 |
From: Madeleine Bruchet
<mad ele ine.bru chet@wanadoo.fr>
Date:
Sunday, January 4, 2004
Do you know
of this picture of John Singer Sargent "Melle Judith Gautier à la Fourberie",
it is from Jean Faure Museum in Aix les Bains
'France)
I know the
place where he painted it: Saint Lunaire, just near Dinard where he stayed. I was born... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Ernest-Ange Duez c. 1884 |
Ernest-Ange
Duez (1843-1896) was a French art friend of Sargent's. Duez, two years younger,
was on the Salon jury of '81 that awarded Sargent the 2nd place medal for his
painting Madame Ramon Subercaseaux (1880). They both had studios at the
boulevard Berthier and were part of the same social circle that included Albert
Besnard, Gabriel Fauré,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Louis de Fourcaud (1851-1914) 1884 Musee d'Orsay Paris, France |
Fourcaud,
Louis Boussess of (Beaumarchez,
1851 ~ 1914)
Art critic, writer, poet, and finally professor of arts. By 1884, when Sargent
paints him, he was writing for the Clairon (a daily
newspaper) and other publications and was considered one of the prominent art critics
in Paris -- he was 33 years old.
Born of a noble family. At twelve he... | GA | igrkio |
 | Francois Flameng and Paul Helleu 1882-85 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
By the time
Sargent painted Francois Flameng (1856-1923) with his friend Paul Helleu
behind, he was an already accomplished French painter. Francois was known for
his genre, scene, and portrait paintings, and later known also for his powerful
illustrations of the Great War.
His father
Leopold was an engraver and so he became exposed to art at a... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
