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 | The Entrance to the Grand Canal 1880/1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 
Probably
the most tourist view painting he did of Venice. We are looking sort of
northwest from the lagoon. You can see the Palazzo Ducale
and the campanile of San Marco to the right and the domed Santa
Maria della Salute to the left.
Note:
Offered by Sothbeys but not sold; 5/27/1999; Lot 110; estimated
$50,000-$75,000
The source
didn't date... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Bead Stringers of Venice 1880-82 |
The
painting, an unfinished sketch, shows bead stringers assembling the beads as
they sit outside in a small alley or corridor. The two nearest women face an
open door, possibly a bead shop similar to what Sargent
painted in Venetian Glass Workers (thumbnail). Apparently whatever he was
planning for the doorway, he grew frustrated and scraped, or... | GA | igrkio |
 | Study of Donatello's Saint John 1880 |
The date of
this sketchs ares unknown, though I know he was painting the outside of the
Frari in 1880 and the brevity of the sketch falls in line with the same kind of
energy of the Two Studies for El Jaleo which were c. 1879-82.
See
Donatello's St. John in
Juxtaposition with Sargent's
Donatello
Italian sculptor, Florentine... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sketch of canal with boats 1880 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Sketch of Arabs (figures) 1879-1880 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Seated Woman with Fan (from scrapbook) c. 1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Ramon Subercaseaux c. 1880 |
Born in
Valparaiso which is right on the coast and not too far from the capital,
Ramón (1854-1937) was the Chilean Counsul to
Paris. At twenty-six years old he was only two years older than John.
Ramón was active in the artistic community, cultivating a number of
friends. He was himself an amateur artist.
His career
was quite successful,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Ralph Curtis on the Beach at Scheveningen 1880 High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA |
Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854-1922)
American painter, was Boston born and a graduate of Harvard. He
eventually lived in Europe and was a painter of portraits, genres, and
interiors.
Ralph and
John would become good friends. They were 2nd cousins (their father's were
cousins) though they didn't meet until Curtis went to Paris to study art.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Jean Joseph Marie Carries 1880 |
Carrièrs was a Parisian sculptor and had exhibited portrait busts at the Salon
in 1879 and 1881. Carrièrs was one year older
than Sargent. The painting, like many he did of
friends, shows Sargent at his freest and most
expressive.
There is no
way the image here shows adequately the thick paint, and the rapid brush
strokes of this portrait,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of George Hitchcock 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
George
Hitchcock (1850-1913) was an American painter. Born in
Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Charles Hitchcock, a portrait painter.
After receiving his law degree from Harvard in 1874 and working briefly as an
attorney in Providence and New York, he decided to pursue a career as an
artist. He left for Europe in 1877 and studied in London,... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
